UCS B420 M4

UCS B420 M4
Network Server
IBM

17 Dec 2015
143931

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 B420 M4; http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	4.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: B420M4.2.2.6a.0.080520151857 (08/05/2015)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4669 v3 2.10 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-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1380 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba AL13SEB600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-17.1

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.
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.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
141273

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 1380 (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 3108
	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 1380 (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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