ETERNUS DX100 S3

ETERNUS DX100 S3
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device
IBM

23 Jun 2014
141641

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
The scalable and unified Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS DX100 S3 delivers enterprise-class functionality to small and medium-sized companies and subsidiaries with an excellent price/performance ratio. It is the perfect solution when consolidating data for server virtualization, e-mail, databases and business applications as well as centralized file services. Simple, intuitive system management, highly flexible network connectivity and the option of field upgrades to higher system classes significantly reduce operational and migration costs. The ETERNUS DX family architecture lets customers benefit from software options, such as thin provisioning, automatic storage tiering and quality of service management even as early as the entry-level class. This all contributes to better business support. For more information please refer to: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/eternus/products/diskstorage/

Tested Configuration:

Host Bus Adapter:	2 LSI Logic LSI SAS 9200-8e 6Gb/s SAS HBA , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	DiskKit 5.01.37 - 2009-10-28

Product File Specifications

HBA Driver:


	File Name: scsi_transport_sas.ko			File Version: -1
	File Date: 18-Mar-2011			File Size: 53312
	Checksum: 1dcc8f5c847a23e6095043d5df0f844a
	File URL:
	File Name: raid_class.ko			File Version: -1
	File Date: 18-Mar-2011			File Size: 15720
	Checksum: 3420ccbf6f3d132fb90e3cc86804dc35
	File URL:
	File Name: mpt2sas.ko			File Version: -1
	File Date: 18-Mar-2011			File Size: 198688
	Checksum: 89a91a474b471588aeb99b0a27c0d1de
	File URL:

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=165M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
145842

Adapters and Drivers


2 LSI Logic LSI SAS 9200-8e 6Gb/s SAS HBA

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