BladeCenter HX5 (7873

BladeCenter HX5 (7873 - FEx/FNx)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

27 Jun 2013
139130

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86

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. *Provide optimal performance for your demanding virtualization and database applications * Reduce qualification time by standardizing on same system for two- and four-socket server needs * Scale memory without adding CPUs or software licenses * Get faster time to value by deploying workload-optimized systems

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: HIE177ZUS - v1.77 (11/15/2012)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 3.5-inch 300GB 15K SAS Hot-Swap HDD , FibreChannel 4 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.9

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.
Kdump (SLE12SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=212M,high crashkernel=102M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 1 device.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (parameter required, values can be changed).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 126831
	Checksum: 9f0d664e3fe093c19b86863ae772fa25
	Driver Version: 2.2.3

2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 110543
	Checksum: 522acc8cdd5602f7d96b1594d4ca4a6c
	Driver Version: 4.28.00.01suse

QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 784847
	Checksum: 97e6f7c9667034d237848630d4c7fb67
	Driver Version: 8.04.00.13.11.3-

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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BladeCenter HX5 (7873 - FEx/FNx) - Yes Bulletin 139130 | SUSE