BladeCenter HS23 (7875/E5-2600 v2)

BladeCenter HS23 (7875/E5-2600 v2)
Network Server
Netweb Technologies India Ltd.

03 Nov 2014
142210

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 (7875, E5-2600 v2) is a next-generation two-socket blade server running the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2 product family. With its industry-leading RAS features, energy efficiency, outstanding performance, flexible and scalable I/O, and complete systems management, HS23 offers a robust platform optimized for your mission-critical applications. Standard 30 mm single-wide form-factor protects your investments by providing compatibility with the IBM BladeCenter H, E, S, and HT chassis. BladeCenter HS23 offers four integrated LAN ports: dual-port Gigabit Ethernet and dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet with IBM Virtual Fabric capability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TKE139YUS - v1.60 (05/04/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8480+ Processor 2.00 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST1300
Host Bus Adapter:	Cisco Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Cisco devices
Hard Disk Drive:	Cisco UCS-NVME6-W1600 1.6TB WD SN840
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-sockets by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two additional USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=316M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 guests. One of the integrated 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST1300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 03-May-2024	Driver Size: 45022
	Checksum: dfcaf4dfbfa5502eaf745f7b1a86eddd

Cisco UCS VIC 1440
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 03-May-2024	Driver Size: 77073
	Checksum: b51062f2d769ccd848ab3cc8428894b0

Cisco Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Cisco devices
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 03-May-2024	Driver Size: 43816
	Checksum: 1587d87aaca9df53155539d7585787a3
	Driver Version: 1.0

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:

Netweb Technologies India Ltd.
Plot H1, Pocket-9, Faridabad Industrial Town
Sector-57, Ballabhgarh
Faridabad, Haryana 121004
INDIA
Voice: +91-129-2310400
Fax: +91-129-2310470
Website: www.netwebindia.com

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