VMware ESXi 3.5 U5

VMware ESXi 3.5 U5
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

08 Dec 2009
130919

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 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 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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 i386 VM: 2 GB / SLES 10 SP3 x86-64 VM: 512 MB / SLES 11 x86-64 VM: 512 MB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 Parallel Port 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 USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.

Referenced Bulletins
141511

Adapters and Drivers


VMware® Virtual SVGA II
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 40552


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 34940
	Checksum: cff6c7bdd70e7a20caef41c58582d901

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 13-Nov-2009	Driver Size: 291324


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


VMware® Virtual LAN Device 1
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Nov-2009	Driver Size: 25303
	Checksum: 9731e597240789f9400eb2331603392e

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet
	Driver Date: 13-Nov-2009	Driver Size: 25303
	Checksum: 9731e597240789f9400eb2331603392e

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Nov-2009	Driver Size: 43885


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


	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® e1000 virtual LAN adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 186016
	Checksum: 89ad8c62e2a18da9632feceb57a73dda

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

564444

VMware ESXi 3.5 U5 - Yes Bulletin 130919 | SUSE