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| Forward! by Unisys™ Release 3.0.1 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 06 Apr 2015
143012 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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 3.0.1 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform is applicable to Unisys models Forward! 2080, Forward! 2100, Dorado 4350, Dorado 4370, Dorado 4380, Dorado 4390, Dorado 6380, Dorado 6390, Libra 4380, Libra 4390, Libra 6380, Libra 6390, Libra 8380, Libra 8390, 3560R G4.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Virtual Machine |
| Mother Board Revision: | Host Platform: 0H5J4J Rev. A01 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2667 v2 3.30 GHz |
| RAM: | Host Platform: 384 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 124 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 372 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 6 PCI Express X8
4 USB Ports
PCI Express X16
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
- VMware Cloud 1.2 was used to perform this system testing.
- System cerification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP3 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| 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 |
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| Unisys
Virtual SCSI storage controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: virthbamod.ko |
| | Driver Date: 30-Mar-2015 | Driver Size: 63984 |
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| | Driver Version: 4.2.17.26021 |
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| Unisys
Virtual Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko |
| | Driver Date: 30-Mar-2015 | Driver Size: 107472 |
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| | Driver Version: 4.2.17.26021 |
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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:
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