CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1
Network Server
Lenovo

01 Oct 2015
143623

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 combines the high-end features needed in today's mission critical data center with the high compute density and adaptable architecture you need to lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more information, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00AN720
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 07-35 (06/25/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel Hitachi SAS 3004 iMR ROMB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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 Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: two hard disks drives configured as RAID1 and two ThinkSystem M.2 (boot) drives configured as a RAID 0 device.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2015	Driver Size: 11259828
	Checksum: 9941874583cb7268fda0d68abc49040a
	Driver Version: 4.11.18.3038

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

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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