PRIMERGY® BFi20S5/2X X5570 2.93 8M/36GB

PRIMERGY® BFi20S5/2X X5570 2.93 8M/36GB
Network Server
IBM

14 Mar 2011
134812

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF400 S2 are extremely reliable, high-availability systems and are very suitable for mid-volume and high-end requirements in critical business IT projects. The BF400 S2 chassis has space for up to 24 Processing Blades (pBlades) as well as redundant Control (cBlades) and Switch Blades (sBlades). The system contains a built-in BladePlane which provides the physical connections for the I/O of the Processing Blades as well as the communication to the network, the storage systems and the pwer distribution. In conjunction with the cBlades and the sBlades the chassis replaces the Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet Switches as well as the power connections of a normal server architecture. PRIMERGY BladeFrame systems combine the benefits of stateless servers with powerful virtualization and management software which virtualizes the processor, storage and network resources. Systems can thus be configured and the required resources allocated within only a few minutes. This architecture means that a pool of servers can be created instead of allocating dedicated applications to a particular system. For more detailed information please refer to the datasheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=54620703-52ab-4fd9-a036-5722633b6fa7

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	02
BIOS/uEFI:	3.3
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	36 GB
Host Bus Adapter:	Egenera Virtual SCSI Adapter , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	Egenera Virtual SCSI Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
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 external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141517

Adapters and Drivers


Egenera Virtual SCSI Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: egenera_vscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Oct-2010	Driver Size: 69596

	Driver Version: v 11.1.0.1005 11 SP1 32

Egenera Virtual Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: egenera_veth.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Oct-2010	Driver Size: 123844

	Driver Version: v 11.1.0.1005

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
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PRIMERGY® BFi20S5/2X X5570 2.93 8M/36GB - Yes Bulletin 134812 | SUSE