BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)

BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)
Network Server
Lenovo

22 May 2012
137679

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
The HS23E offers value for performance, with support for the new Intel® Xeon® E5-processor that processes up to 16 simultaneous threads and 1600 MHz memory. It is ideal for a variety of workloads such as business applications, virtualization, IT and web infrastructure, point of sale and smart computing.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	AHE112CUS-1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2407 2.20 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID C105 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 500GB Hot-Swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=134M,high crashkernel=72M,low" using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
147167

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 6e4febcdc166990d8ac5cfdb0dfbd20d

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 178048
	Checksum: adf71565329a321aaf4edc7cfe715997

IBM ServeRAID C105
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megasr.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Mar-2012	Driver Size: 1348420
	Checksum: d822e28ba141c6d93f2ee7a3cd87abf8

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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