UCS B200 M2

UCS B200 M2
Network Server
IBM

17 Dec 2015
143914

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
UCS B200 M2; http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: S5500.2.1.3.0.081620131102 (08/16/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5620 2.40 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba MK1401GRRB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-17.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=177M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device two disk RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the internal X550-T2 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

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 M81KR Virtual Interface Card (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 SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 84751
	Checksum: 52f471014808a9ee5748ef7a1aa470fa
	Driver Version: 3.04.20

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card (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:

IBM
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