Hitachi Compute Blade 520HB2

Hitachi Compute Blade 520HB2
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

28 Feb 2014
141240

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Other Products:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Point of Service (SLEPOS)

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 combines the high-end features needed in today's mission critical data center with high compute density and adaptable architecture you need to lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allows configurations to exactly match application needs, and multiple connections to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	GG-RV3XGC0B2X1-Y
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: EP1031 (11/28/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe1205-HI , FibreChannel LSI Logic LSISAS2004 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
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.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
141667

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Emulex Corporation BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 150471
	Checksum: ec63c2a4a680c294fdbc13d1b60329c6
	Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s

Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe1205-HI
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 1022479
	Checksum: db084bffab153b2b7760cfc9bf5dc8da
	Driver Version: 0:8.3.7.10.6p

LSI Logic LSISAS2004
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 271655
	Checksum: eb0224194b14f105753fc4173831ba1c
	Driver Version: 14.100.00.00

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
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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Hitachi Compute Blade 520HB2 - Yes Bulletin 141240 | SUSE