BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR

BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR
Network Server
Lenovo

08 Sep 2014
141863

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

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 Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02 (2014-8). http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/solution/saphana/index03_bs500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	00AN785
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 90-55 (05/27/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 1530 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 512 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1530 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel
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

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/.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=167M,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: two M.2 boot drives configured as RAID 1, two HDD configured as RAID 0.

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 23688
	Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56
	Driver Version: 0.4.1

2 Emulex Corporation OCe11102-NM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 150471
	Checksum: ec63c2a4a680c294fdbc13d1b60329c6
	Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s

Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2014	Driver Size: 5352297
	Checksum: b9ccfc87603281ad8ed7429eb6d99227
	Driver Version: 4.11.17.2164

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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