Cisco UCS B250 M1

Cisco UCS B250 M1
Network Server
FSAS Technologies Inc.

03 Nov 2009
130630

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Product Description
Cisco UCS B250 M1 Blade Server

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	S5500.0036.01.00.81.102220091705
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco CNA M71KR-E , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Fujitsu MBD2300RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix / DMX
USB Keyboard:	Cisco Virtual Device
USB Mouse:	Cisco Virtual Device
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter must be increased from the default value for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest and another virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. Two Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters were used in this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 333 is required and was installed on the host during certification testing. SLES 12 kernel update 333 was installed on SLES 12 FV guest, SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10103 was installed on SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. 64-bit guests were tested with a maximum memory configuration of 64GB.

Referenced Bulletins
142823

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 195712
	Checksum: aa323e9b7243810830f170a73c0337cf

Cisco CNA M71KR - E
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 117512
	Checksum: 1a8950d8ed3249809478842a1527384a

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 89736
	Checksum: a305bf04c07867149c163920c96006ae

Cisco CNA M71KR-E
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 531568
	Checksum: baed3f47332eb5e4d1d09bca68431a3c

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

FSAS Technologies Inc.
13-2 Frontier Musashikosugi, Nakamaruko, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki City 211-0012
JAPAN
Voice: 044-754-2453
Website: https://www.fsastech.com/

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Cisco UCS B250 M1 - Yes Bulletin 130630 | SUSE