Forward! by Unisys Release 2.0 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform

Forward! by Unisys Release 2.0 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform
Network Server
IBM

25 Jul 2014
141777

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Forward! by Unisys™ fabric delivers the cost effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux operating systems. Forward! fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The Forward! by Unisys™ Release 2.0 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform is applicable to Unisys models Forward! 2080, Forward! 2100, Dorado 4350, Dorado 4370, Dorado 4380, Dorado 4390, Dorado 6380, Dorado 6390, Libra 4380, Libra 4390, Libra 6380, Libra 6390, Libra 8380, Libra 8390; 3560R G4.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: Unisys 0H5J4J Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2667 v2 3.30 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 384 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 124GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 348 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Unisys Virtual Video Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unisys Virtual Hard Disk Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

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.
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.

Adapters and Drivers


Unisys Virtual Video Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 23688
	Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56
	Driver Version: 0.4.1

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virthbamod.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 61952

	Driver Version: 4.1.17.23740

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: Lan Support File	Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 105128

	Driver Version: 4.1.17.23740

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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Forward! by Unisys Release 2.0 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform - Yes Bulletin 141777 | SUSE