BladeCenter HS21 (8853-RLx)

BladeCenter HS21 (8853-RLx)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

14 Oct 2010
133873

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Features up to two high-performance Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors. 1GB standard memory per blade. Two 1-Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load balancing and fail-over features, up to twelve Ethernet ports per blade optional

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	6
BIOS/uEFI:	BCE143AUS-1.19
CPU:	2 Intel Dual-Core Xeon® Processor L5240 3.0 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 15.8GB 2.5-inch Solid State Drive , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM 73.4GB 10K 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

System was configured as 1-node scalable partition.
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), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Kdump: Yast2 - Kernel kdump - kdump memory was increased from 128 to 256 MB for kdump to function.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Referenced Bulletins
139150

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010	Driver Size: 720064
	Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708S NetXtreme II GbE controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 119648
	Checksum: 26ac1b061a7c06cf31fe4505bc66c932

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 104944
	Checksum: 9a01a228da26f94f3217b384892c5809

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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BladeCenter HS21 (8853-RLx) - Yes Bulletin 133873 | SUSE