BladeSymphony BS2500 HE0E2

BladeSymphony BS2500 HE0E2
Network Server
IBM

22 Jan 2016
144049

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
Please see http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/product/bs2500e_2_spec.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-17 (09/11/2015)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
139174

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

4 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Sep-2015	Driver Size: 8413846
	Checksum: d411614eed2c4c31df827b82e0c2f7c6
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-h1

2 Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 11620897
	Checksum: 4a68c22bea8194ffd51d459ad4c4c963
	Driver Version: 4.12.18.3146

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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