BladeCenter HX5 (7873

BladeCenter HX5 (7873 - BHx/BAx)
Network Server
xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd.

01 Jul 2013
139291

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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 E7-4807 1.86 GHz
RAM:	192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA , FibreChannel 2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two additional USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=251M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
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.

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: 31-May-2013	Driver Size: 127583
	Checksum: e942e14791496d7ca6cf4d7f16aa9bfb
	Driver Version: 2.2.3

QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2013	Driver Size: 784495
	Checksum: 8d8dd99eb6f58daa495d26432a58c641
	Driver Version: 8.04.00.13.11.3-

2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2013	Driver Size: 110383
	Checksum: 5f1238e964072311a04c3255554f991c
	Driver Version: 4.28.00.01suse

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:

xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd.
23F Meisheng Center, 33 East Jinshui Rd
Zhengzhou, Nei Mongol 450018
CHINA

584922

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