HP Integrity BL870c

HP Integrity BL870c
Network Server
Lenovo

04 Jun 2010
132644

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The HP Integrity BL870c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade is a four socket full-height server blade featuring the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 9120 dual-core processor supported by up to 96GB memory (24 DIMM slots). The BL870c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to four internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade coexists with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A4
BIOS/uEFI:	04.21
CPU:	Intel Dual-Core Itanium® Processor 9120N 1.42 GHz
RAM:	8 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:	4 HP DG072A3315 72GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	HP
USB Mouse:	HP
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=147M,high crashkernel=112M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing. SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.

Adapters and Drivers


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

2 Intel 82571EB Quad Port Gigabit Mezzanine Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 427832
	Checksum: 5a262516d1b11183179c9ca0701ab30c

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

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

579354

HP Integrity BL870c - Yes Bulletin 132644 | SUSE