IBM zEnterprise® BladeCenter® Extension zBX (2458)

IBM zEnterprise® BladeCenter® Extension zBX (2458)
Network Server
IBM

16 Mar 2015
142958

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

4 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
IBM zEnterprise zBX, running IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) blades

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: zBX Model 4 System
BIOS/uEFI:	zBX Firmware: HIE183AUS-1.83
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-2830 2.13 GHz
RAM:	Assignable Host Memory: 176 GB / VM Guests: 44 GB, Max VM Guest Tested Memory (SLES 12): 176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Cirrus Logic Cirrus CL-GD5446
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Virtual 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (Natoma/Triton II) , IDE IBM Virtio Block Device , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM QEMU Emulated IDE , IDE IBM QEMU Virtual Hard Disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	IBM QEMU DVD-ROM , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141338

Adapters and Drivers


Cirrus Logic Cirrus CL-GD5446
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: cirrus.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 59031


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: cirrus_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 19416

	Driver Version: 1.5.2

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 523055
	Checksum: 24f1502cad78a842cfa8f8c86ed2de25

IBM Virtual 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (Natoma/Triton II)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 53815

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 13951

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 31495


IBM Virtual Realtek RTL-8139 Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: 8139cp.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 52943

	Driver Version: 1.3

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: 8139too.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 69079

	Driver Version: 0.9.28

IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 52775


IBM Virtual 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 259895

	Driver Version: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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IBM zEnterprise® BladeCenter® Extension zBX (2458) - Yes Bulletin 142958 | SUSE