HP Integrity BL860c

HP Integrity BL860c
Network Server
NEC Corporation

04 Jun 2010
132643

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
The HP Integrity BL860c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. The HP Integrity BL860c server blade is a two socket full-height blade server featuring three models of the latest Intel Itanium 2 dual-core processors supported by up to 48GB memory (12 DIMM slots). The BL860c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to two internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL860c server blade coexists perfectly with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A3
BIOS/uEFI:	04.21
CPU:	Intel Itanium® 2 1.6 GHz
RAM:	2 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP DG036A8B53, 36 GB, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS) HP DG146ABAB4 146GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	HP
USB Mouse:	HP
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Emulex Integrated BE3 Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Referenced Bulletins
139151

Adapters and Drivers


LSI Logic LSISAS 1068
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 175640
	Checksum: cc6f633a9983666bd96cbd17f2ec33ab

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM 5704s Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 394288
	Checksum: 338e45576e4b38c752f93c218e4e1377

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:

NEC Corporation
1-10 Nissin-cho, Fuchu-shi
Tokyo 183-8501
JAPAN
Voice: (+81) 42 333 1324
Fax: (+81) 42 333 1821

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