Compute Blade 520XB2 LPAR

Compute Blade 520XB2 LPAR
Network Server
Lenovo

02 Feb 2016
144063

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02 (2015-11). Please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	GG-RV3XGE0B2X1-Y
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-15 (08/18/2015)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 6144 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 2048 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 4096 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 16Gb 2port Fibre Channel Board , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G600
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.
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 of the embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port), adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
140238

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: libfb.so
	Driver Date: 30-May-2013	Driver Size: 138752

	Driver Version: 1.0.0

Hitachi 16Gb 2port Fibre Channel Board
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 11622493
	Checksum: 5fd0a9cc3c2ff51975e97bf4cab4f541
	Driver Version: 4.11.18.3130

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 2091520
	Checksum: 4f06b737f4e99bc2d52b308fc49f7c7a
	Driver Version: 2.16.4

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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