 | BladeCenter HX5 (7873) - 2 Node
Network Server IBM | 27 Jan 2015
142650 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. Provide optimal performance for your demanding virtualization and database applications. Reduce qualification time by standardizing on same system for two- and four-socket server needs. Scale memory without adding CPUs or software licenses. Get faster time to value by deploying workload-optimized systems.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: HIE183XUS - v1.83 (07/17/2014) |
| CPU: | 4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz |
| RAM: | 192 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® G200eV |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
, FibreChannel LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 3 IBM
146 GB 10K HS 3.5-inch SAS HDD
, FibreChannel 4 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® G200eV | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 98407 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 134247 | ||||||||
| Checksum: ed1797e36d5ccd77105f35bc8cb3ae16 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 2.2.5 | |||||||||
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| IBM QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 1003079 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 668b4acba416c542410e4805cb1edf92 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 8.07.00.08.12.0- | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 85311 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 998f7e92f8c08362b22e6dfdaee6d866 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.04.20 | |||||||||
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