CB2500 Compute Blade 520H B3

CB2500 Compute Blade 520H B3
Network Server
IBM

08 Feb 2016
144074

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 delivers enterprise computing power and performance, as well as unprecedented scalability and configuration flexibility, with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processor, to help you lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and enables multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more details, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00KJ109
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 08-38 (08/31/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 8Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 150
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

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).
Hard Disk Configuration: 50 GB SSD is in the blade module, the 300 GB and 73.4 GB drives are in the chassis.
Install: System installed using the BladeCenter chassis DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
139125

Adapters and Drivers


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

Hitachi OCl14104-U3-HI 4-port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

Hitachi 8Gb 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

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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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