BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR

BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

15 Dec 2014
142540

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension

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). 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:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
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
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 8Gb 4-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

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


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

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 4-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2014	Driver Size: 5352443
	Checksum: edf193d1bc7cde5d80171e9ee6beab2b
	Driver Version: 4.11.17.2166

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 Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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BladeSymphony BS520XB1 LPAR - Yes Bulletin 142540 | SUSE