UCS B260 M4

UCS B260 M4
Network Server
IBM

17 Dec 2015
143908

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
UCS B260 M4; http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	4.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: EXM4.2.2.6a.0.080720151444 (08/07/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® (ST9146853SS) 15K.3 6-Gbps 146-GB Hard Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-17.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader ans system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1. Manually created the UEFI boot entry/link in the F1 setup.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=158M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.

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-3 3008
	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" Enterprise 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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