Forward! by Unisys™ Release 3.0 (PEPP) 1-Socket plarform

Forward! by Unisys™ Release 3.0 (PEPP) 1-Socket plarform
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

11 Feb 2015
142737

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The Forward! by Unisys™ fabric delivers the cost effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux operating systems. Forward! fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The Forward! by Unisys™ Release 3.0 (PEPP) 1-Socket plarform is applicable to Unisys models Forward! 1100, Dorado 4350, Dorado 4370, Dorado 4380, Dorado 4390, Dorado 6380, Dorado 6390, Libra 4380, Libra 4390, Libra 6380, Libra 6390, Libra 8380, Libra 8390, 3520R G4.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: Unisys 0DY523 Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 96 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 28 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 84 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Unisys Virtual Video Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unisys Virtual Hard Disk Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Install: OS install was performed via network using the SUSE SolidDriver-compliant bootable driver kit at http://drivers.suse.com/hp/HP-Z440-Z640-Z840/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html. LAN and storage drivers are provided by the kit.
Graphics: Video driver used in this configuration is SolidDriver-compliant and may be installed by adding http://download.nvidia.com/novell/sle11sp3 as a software repository then installing the nvidia-gfx03 packages.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
143021

Adapters and Drivers


Unisys Virtual Video Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 23688
	Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56
	Driver Version: 0.4.1

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virthbamod.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 63952

	Driver Version: 4.2.14.25494

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 107472

	Driver Version: 4.2.14.25494

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

570014

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