Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57-A1

Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57-A1
Network Server
Ericsson AB

19 Feb 2013
138951

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-classs platform. Featuring a balanced system architecture, it eliminates bottlenecks in performance and throughput. Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 embedded logical partitioning feature supports flexible configurations. It extends the benefits of logical partitioning to new areas of the enterprise data center, including mission-critical application servers and database servers, with minimal cost and maximum simplicity. The 2000 X57-A1 model is a SAN boot only configuration.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	GVAX57A1-7NNX14Z
BIOS/uEFI:	4.6.3
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7540 2.00 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	Emulex Corporation LPe12002 , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

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 .
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 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.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 246368


Emulex Corporation LPe12002
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 958608
	Checksum: bad79131afd41940ce7e6ce917b60d50

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:

Ericsson AB
Torshamnsgatan 21
Kista, Stockholm 164 83
SWEDEN
Website: https://www.ericsson.com

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