UCS B230 M2

UCS B230 M2
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd.

07 Nov 2014
142337

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
UCS B230 M2, http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: B230.2.1.3.0.082020131642
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-2803 1.73 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS) Unigen PSE4000S3 , USB
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio drivers was used.
SUSE Driver Kit: The Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141668

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 120815
	Checksum: b5ea157616e0c049536a59e8b8752fc3
	Driver Version: 2.1.1.50

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 203391
	Checksum: e63ba03038814e1560e7be089c294be1
	Driver Version: 1.6.0.11

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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:

Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken 259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495

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