BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GLx)

BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GLx)
Network Server
Lenovo

31 Mar 2011
134905

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

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

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH}
Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 NICs.

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: 224440
	Checksum: 6eda307ca91ab4bcce2a84fc6d15dd32

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 93904
	Checksum: 1509a74fea272b3c4c5529cac1eeac72

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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