BladeCenter HX5 with MAX5 (7873-AC1)

BladeCenter HX5 with MAX5 (7873-AC1)
Network Server
IBM

11 Oct 2011
136255

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 3

Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The IBM BladeCenter HX5 supports up to two of the latest generation Intel processors. Two HX5 servers can be connected together for a high-performance single image with four processors and up to 512 GB of RAM in a blade form factor. For applications that need to maximize available memory but that do not need four processors, a single HX5 server can be attached to a MAX5 memory expansion blade to form a single image with two processors and up to 640 GB of RAM. This level of processing and memory capacity is ideal for large-scale database or virtualization requirements.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	HIE160YUS - v1.60
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8867L 2.13 GHz
RAM:	640 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device configured with two SSDs in RAID 1. Kdump (SLE15SP1): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=279M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 SP1 guests. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 224440
	Checksum: 7f09c2163ed8665f9b349b7d775151c0

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 93904
	Checksum: aaa4a851751d4fe198683ef91694f133

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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