Citrix® XenServer™ 5.6

Citrix® XenServer™ 5.6
Network Server
IBM

28 May 2010
132156

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
XenServer is an enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform with all the capabilities needed to create and manage a virtual infrastructure. The advanced XenServer capabilities allow organizations of any size to integrate and automate management processes, which in turn lower the costs and improve IT operations. To get started, download and activate the free XenServer in less than ten minutes and virtualize even your most demanding workloads. When ready, simply upgrade to one of the enhanced offerings for a rich set of management and automation capabilities that are designed to help customers create a virtual datacenter environment.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 / Motherboard Rev A00
BIOS/uEFI:	1.1.4
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 24 GB / Virtual Machine Guests: 4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Citrix Systems, Inc. XenServer™ headless graphics
Host Bus Adapter:	Citrix Systems, Inc. XenServer™ Virtual SCSI LSI Logic Device for Novell SLES , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	Citrix Systems, Inc. Xen Virtual Hard Disk (vbd) , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8525 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 (M1115) and RAID 0 (H1110).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Network: System uses one of the Intel I350-AM4 quad-port network adapter ports for the dedicated Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) connection. Leaving three network ports available for the standard user network.
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).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141011

Adapters and Drivers


Citrix Systems, Inc. XenServer™ headless graphics
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: dummy_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 19432


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 24008


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: dummy_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 18328


Citrix Systems, Inc. XenServer™ Virtual SCSI LSI Logic Device for Novell SLES
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: xenblk.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 45824


	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: xenblk.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 33752


	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: xenblk.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 32560


2 Citrix Systems, Inc. XenServer™ Virtual Network Device for Novell SLES
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: xennet.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 71936


	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: xennet.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 58120


	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: xennet.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 51664

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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