BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GLx)

BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GLx)
Network Server
IBM

31 Mar 2011
134903

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 15 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
• High-density modular blade server designed to support the entire family of BladeCenter chassis; • Designed to take less time to install and fewer people to maintain, helping reduce IT infrastructure costs; • Support for Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology provides the performance needed for even the most demanding applications; • Featuring new high-speed fabrics with BladeCenter H to deliver greater bandwidth and performance; • Helps reduce power and cooling costs while delivering substantial performance gains over earlier technology—true performance efficiency.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	6
BIOS/uEFI:	BCE143AUS-1.19
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor L5420 2.50 GHz
RAM:	9 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:	2 IBM 36GB Non Hot-Swap 2.5" SFF SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1

Config Notes

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.
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.
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 SLES15 data is being updated in the same document and at current SLES 12 SP3 crashkernel values works fine.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708S NetXtreme II GbE controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 213872
	Checksum: 51b8050ac2eabb072a3f668ae22feb5b

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 81616
	Checksum: 2e092a87c1236c561ae8a50281d45d60

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:
www.ibm.com

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BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GLx) - Yes Bulletin 134903 | SUSE