UCS B22 M3

UCS B22 M3
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

17 Dec 2015
143891

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Other Products:

SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 6 - Admin & Control Node

Product Description
UCS B22 M3; http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: B22M3.2.2.6b.0.082820151149 (08/28/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba MBF2300RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-17.1

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.
SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.
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 http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 10560 and kernel update 10549 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: 7920de3e1726e5ab4ccdb446135380fb

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 136391
	Checksum: d126c5fc402696169fbd20faed037cdc
	Driver Version: 2.1.1.83

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: c5ee3766f934178ec06927bce00b80f8
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 205135
	Checksum: 19dcd2bd2c495f6b208d5de1de992824
	Driver Version: 1.6.0.17

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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