IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express (7998-61X)

IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express (7998-61X)
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

16 Jul 2010
133034

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

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, scalability and manageability — the BladeCenter JS22 Express is a premier SMB (Small and Medium Business) blade for 64-bit applications. It represents one of the most cost-efficient solutions for UNIX®, i and Linux® deployments available in the market. Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other BladeCenter LS, HS and JS blade servers, the JS22 Express can deliver the rapid return on investment that small businesses demand.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	EA350_038
CPU:	2 IBM POWER6™ 4.0 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	64-bit PCI-X PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GCC4247N , USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
141510

Adapters and Drivers


2 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 127664
	Checksum: 0b2e4ebe15bbab0ced362a3cc59797ce

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 174408
	Checksum: c1038351ec05e3e69d145d73fea6f513

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

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IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express (7998-61X) - Yes Bulletin 133034 | SUSE