CB2500 Compute Blade 520HB3

CB2500 Compute Blade 520HB3
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

28 May 2015
143221

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 delivers enterprise computing power and performance, as well as unprecedented scalability and configuration flexibility, with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processor, to help you lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and enables multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more details, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00KJ109
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 08-29 (03/23/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi SAS 3004 iMR ROMB , Serial SCSI (SAS) Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0.

Referenced Bulletins
143876

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Hitachi OCl14104-U3-HI 4-port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Dec-2014	Driver Size: 192236

	Driver Version: 10.2.469.0

Hitachi SAS 3004 iMR ROMB
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 1510634
	Checksum: cf1b3cd6163cf4993643bfeaa325f48d
	Driver Version: 06.703.06.00

Hitachi 8Gb 2-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
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

574464

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