VMware ESX 4.0

VMware ESX 4.0
Network Server
IBM

12 Nov 2009
130706

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10

Product Description
VMware ESX is the foundation for dynamic, self-optimizing IT infrastructure. VMware ESX is a robust, production-proven virtualization layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines. VMware ESX allows IT organizations to increase hardware utilization and dramatically decrease capital and operating cost by sharing hardware resources across a large number of virtual machines that run side-by-side on the same server. Improving service levels even to the most resource-intensive applications, VMware ESX provides advanced resource management, high availability, and security features that deliver the high levels of performance, scalability, and robustness required for enterprise IT environments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: Intel® 440BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0
BIOS/uEFI:	PhoenixBIOS 4.00 Release 6.0
CPU:	8 Intel Dual-Core Xeon® Processor 5050 3.00 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 4 GB / SLES 10 SP3 x86-64 VM: 2 GB / SLES 10 SP3 i386 VM: 512 MB / SLES 11 x86-64 VM: 512 MB
Ports and Bus Types:	Parallel Port PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	VMware® Virtual SVGA II
Host Bus Adapter:	VMware® Virtual SCSI LSI Logic Device for SUSE Linux , SCSI VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	VMware® Virtual Hard Disk rev:1.0 (SCSI) , SCSI
CD/DVD:	VMware® Virtual IDE CDROM Drive , IDE
Floppy Type:	1.44
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP2 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
139175

Adapters and Drivers


2 VMware® e1000 virtual LAN adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 298840
	Checksum: 807194b810e47194c53061332ab91fe7

VMware® Virtual SCSI LSI Logic Device for SUSE Linux
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptspi.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 47080
	Checksum: b5628ef096e0488093b69dee090e541d

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptspi.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 32680
	Checksum: 4aeb6ee07a59c41eb99cad7eae17d991

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptspi.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 27880


VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 35152
	Checksum: 0a75c8949fad26ec33a9e6907c42b6fb

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 18028


	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 37888
	Checksum: f81281db8221f758e7111cd80015aebe

VMware® Virtual SVGA II
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 10-Jul-2009	Driver Size: 64345
	Checksum: 9588428fd084a37024577ef3c20e02f6

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2009	Driver Size: 52981


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 10-Jul-2009	Driver Size: 67702


VMware® Virtual LAN Device 0
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: pcnet32.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 38848


	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Oct-2009	Driver Size: 54245


VMware® Virtual LAN Device 1
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Oct-2009	Driver Size: 25480

The term SUSE YES 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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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VMware ESX 4.0 - Yes Bulletin 130706 | SUSE