Cisco B250 M1

Cisco B250 M1
Network Server
IBM

08 Feb 2010
131289

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Cisco UCS B250 M1 Blade Server

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	S5500.1.1.0.6.012220101915
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:	Cisco CNA M71KR-E , FibreChannel LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973452SS , 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: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.

Referenced Bulletins
143509

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

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

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

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
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