Bull Escala E5-800

Bull Escala E5-800
Network Server
Fujitsu

23 Feb 2016
144114

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Escala entry servers: Innovation, driving up performance and bringing down TCO.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	48 IBM POWER8 3.02 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST300MP0064 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM slim line DVD - RMB00140592 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=182M,high crashkernel=222M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: The network configuration in the system does not support SR-IOV or PCI Pass-through.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® NetXtreme II BCM57800 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 1121839
	Checksum: d9de1b9c3ef96146236fe54f4af2a8e6
	Driver Version: 1.710.51-0

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 221527
	Checksum: cf4693eb5a70aa558e385c02de4232af
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY
Voice: +49 (0)5251 525 2537
Website: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/index.html

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