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 | IBM BladeCenter HS23E (8038)
Network Server
SGI | 13 Nov 2014
142375 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The HS23E offers value for performance, with support for the Intel® Xeon® E5-processor that processes up to 16 simultaneous threads and 1600 MHz memory. It is ideal for a variety of workloads such as business applications, virtualization, IT and web infrastructure, point of sale and smart computing.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: AHE140YUS - v1.50 (06/10/2014) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | 24 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM
500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1 |
Config Notes
- KVM Guest: The SLE10SP4 guests were configured with a virtual e1000 NIC.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. Each KVM Guest was installed on an LVM partition with its own LV disk.
- KVM Guest: SLE10SP4 guests were booted with the "no-kvmclock" boot parameter.
- Current kernel maintenance updates were installed on the SLE11SP1 KVM guests in order to provide updated virtio drivers.
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Referenced Bulletins
135814
Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 98407 |
| | Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63 |
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| Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 256071 |
| | Checksum: 9563c6d0ed104b22f6cb4532f23b69c6 |
| | Driver Version: 3.136 |
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| LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 353319 |
| | Checksum: ee3f5bb2061f4504ff7b55bde1d19981 |
| | Driver Version: 18.100.00.00 |
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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:
SGI
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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