IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873)

IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) - 2 Node
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

04 Aug 2015
143537

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Product Description
The Lenovo 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

Power management: Hibernation/Suspend to Disk/ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Graphics: Video driver used in this configuration is SolidDriver-compliant and may be installed by adding http://www2.ati.com/suse/sle12 as a software repository then installing the auto-selected ati-fglrx packages. This repository and driver packages are added automatically when installing in a network environment.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 98407
	Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63

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

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-

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

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
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) - 2 Node - Yes Bulletin 143537 | SUSE