BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR

BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

15 Dec 2014
142540

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Other Products:

SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 7 - Compute Node

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	GG-RV3XGE0B1X1-Y
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 07-05 (09/03/2014)
CPU:	IBM System z processor running 64 bit mode
RAM:	Host Platform: 6144 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 2048 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 4096 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Escon , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI IBM Ficon Express4 , FibreChannel IBM Ficon Express8 , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Escon
IBM SCSI/FCP
IBM Ficon Express4
IBM Ficon Express8
IBM OSA-Express2
IBM OSA-Express3

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

579562

BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR - Yes Bulletin 142540 | SUSE