FusionServer FH121 V3

FusionServer FH121 V3
Network Server
IBM

19 Nov 2015
143801

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

Product Description
This blade is a general computing node based on Intel CPU's and just half width of the cabinet. It provides large computing capability and can be flexibly expanded. It is optimally designed for high-denesity computing and has a large memory capacity for the virtualization, cloud computing, HPC, and a businesses of compute-intensive enterprise.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	V100R002C00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: GPUBV101 (06/18/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon Processor E5-2658 v3 2.20 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 3 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC109090CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

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


Mellanox® ConnectX-3 Pro MT27528A0-FCCR-BE (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx4_core.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 535088
	Checksum: 0d62c2b069a4c25ae90d328187c64487
	Driver Version: 1.1

Mellanox® ConnectX-3 Pro MT27528A0-FCCR-XE (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx4_core.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 535088
	Checksum: 0d62c2b069a4c25ae90d328187c64487
	Driver Version: 1.1

LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 271655
	Checksum: eb0224194b14f105753fc4173831ba1c
	Driver Version: 14.100.00.00

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:

IBM
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