UCS B250 M1

UCS B250 M1
Network Server
IBM

03 Jan 2011
134450

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
UCS B250 M1

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	S5500.1.4.1f.0.112420100958
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5680 3.33 GHz
RAM:	384 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 Seagate® ST9146803SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

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
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
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.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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UCS B250 M1 - Yes Bulletin 134450 | SUSE