UCS B420 M3

UCS B420 M3
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

09 Sep 2013
140093

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
UCS B420 M3; http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3.0
BIOS/uEFI:	B420M3.2.1.3a.0.082320131746
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4603 2.0 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic Embedded SAS2208 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	LSI Logic MRSASRoMB-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Unigen UGB30SDC16H0 CompactFlash Card , CompactFlash
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141517

Adapters and Drivers


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

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 108591
	Checksum: 9b887c21844aae3640e458c52b3c56d0
	Driver Version: 2.1.1.39

LSI Logic Embedded SAS2208
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 163231
	Checksum: db9b1dca0053d09139c8b63c29f30d38
	Driver Version: 1.5.0.22

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

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UCS B420 M3 - Yes Bulletin 140093 | SUSE