HUAWEI Tecal BH640 V2

HUAWEI Tecal BH640 V2
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

22 Nov 2012
138704

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
http://enterprise.huawei.com/cn/products/itapp/server/e-series-blade-server/hw-149401.htm

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	V100R002
BIOS/uEFI:	RMISV032
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4620 2.20 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	XGI Volari Z11
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Fujitsu MHV2080BS , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

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. Kdump (SLES11SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=16384M-:8192M for kdump during certification testing.
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.
Maintenance updates: The following updates are required to the Kernel (12869), Kexec-tools (12962) and Kdump (12411). https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=abdTREGeaIw~ https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=s5MyAyB4ZRQ https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=yjNH0ugcd_E~
Kernel-bigmem for SAP HANA environments on ppc64: Kernel-bigmem is required to be run on a system with more than 1024 logical CPU threads, which in this case IBM Power System E880 was configured with 192 physical CPU core with SMT8 resulting 1536 logical CPU threads. Also, ppc64 systems with more than 1.5TB of main memory; for specific support, configuration and memory requirements please read the following knowledge base web link. https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7018408.

Adapters and Drivers


XGI Volari Z11
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 23656
	Checksum: bb7fa259356f644418e3fa080d50dc1a

Intel 82580DB (dual port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 246368
	Checksum: fcb34e6c5610ff2a00a5460f065817e6

LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 253616
	Checksum: 42efe92ff9ed835c2e12250a2dc5e1e3

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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