IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express (7778-23X)

IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express (7778-23X)
Network Server
IBM

13 Jul 2010
132988

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter® family of products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageability—the BladeCenter JS43 Express is a premier blade for 64-bit applications. It represents a flexible and cost-efficient solution for Linux deployments. Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other IBM BladeCenter blade servers, the JS43 can deliver the rapid return on investment that clients and businesses demand. Delivering on the promise of a truly Dynamic Infrastructure, the BladeCenter JS43 can help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly efficient way.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	EA340_073
CPU:	4 IBM POWER6™ 4.2 GHz
RAM:	15 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express CIOv 2 PCI Express CFFh
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GCC4247N , USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP2 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP2 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.

Adapters and Drivers


4 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 127664
	Checksum: ea6c273556004e8cf873bb1184c3e4d7

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 174408
	Checksum: a0fe11bae1391c9585b735b2ef4e4ad9

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:
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IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express (7778-23X) - Yes Bulletin 132988 | SUSE