ClearPath Forward™ Release 3.1.1 (PEPP) 4-Socket platform

ClearPath Forward™ Release 3.1.1 (PEPP) 4-Socket platform
Network Server
IBM

16 Dec 2015
143880

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The ClearPath Forward™ fabric delivers the cost effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux operating systems. ClearPath Forward fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The ClearPath Forward™ Release 3.1.1 (PEPP) 4 Socket platform is applicable to all Unisys ClearPath Forward models, including ClearPath Forward, ClearPath Forward Libra 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, & 8390 as well as ClearPath Forward Dorado 4350, 4370, 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, 8390, and ES3000 model 3590R G5.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Unisys 0DY523 Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 3072 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1020 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 3060 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 Serial 5 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4 4 USB Ports
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 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=187M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
System was tested headlessly with no KVM connector (Serial/USB/VGA ports); it was installed and configured using the IMM Remote connection. Because there was no KVM connector the USB ports were not tested during certification.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).

Adapters and Drivers


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

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virthbamod.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 65296

	Driver Version: 4.3.10.27014

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 105432

	Driver Version: 4.3.10.27014

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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ClearPath Forward™ Release 3.1.1 (PEPP) 4-Socket platform - Yes Bulletin 143880 | SUSE