Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57-A1

Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57-A1
Network Server
IBM

19 Feb 2013
138952

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-class 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 area 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

Install: System installed using PXE network using UEFI boot loader. Hard disk configuration: two HDD's and two M.2 (boot drive), each configured as separate RAID 0 devices.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146079

Adapters and Drivers


Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 73032


Emulex Corporation LPe12002
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 744096
	Checksum: 91c268d071fd9c553f2eae01678ecdde

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

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:

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