CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2
Network Server
Fujitsu

21 Apr 2016
144471

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 combines the high-end features needed in today's mission critical data center with the high compute density and adaptable architecture you need to lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more information, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-24 (12/21/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Hitachi 16Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card (FIVE-FX based Fibre Channel to PCIe HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (VSP G1000)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kernel update: SLES11 SP3 kernel update 9237 (3.0.101-0.29 x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 64.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.11.18.3130.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.11.18.3130_3.0.76_0.11-1.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346444.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "ixgbe" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver "ixgbe" use Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters and the driver package name is "ixgbe-kmp-default-3.21.2_3.0.101_0.29-h1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES11SP3 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346369.html

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Hitachi OCL14104-U2-HI 4 port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 175527
	Checksum: e1db06703d4a5ae9c34354f370e79bc5
	Driver Version: 10.4s

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008
Hitachi 16Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card (FIVE-FX based Fibre Channel to PCIe HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 11762185
	Checksum: c9851224449e9618b47054efec2876fb
	Driver Version: 4.11.18.3154

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
FTS PDG ST
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY

572094

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