UCS B200 M2

UCS B200 M2
Network Server
NEC Corporation

10 Jun 2010
132731

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Product Description
UCS B200 M2, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10915/index.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	S5500.1.3.1c.0.052020101544
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Fujitsu MBD2300RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462 SLES15 data is being updated in the same document and at current SLES 12 SP3 crashkernel values works fine
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 96a33dda383f3a9a0105217ce9af245a

Cisco 82598KR-CI
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 209248
	Checksum: 623432283a3d7cfac5e61b37cc580f7e

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 88496
	Checksum: 6008f1ab475edc8ffc35a67a6d71c096

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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