CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4
Network Server
IBM

26 May 2016
144604

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

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:	11KJ143
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 10-01 (03/09/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Emulex Corporation LPm16002B-HI , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST ULTRASTAR C15K600, 300GB, SAS (HUC156030CSS204) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G200
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

System was configured as 2-node scalable partition.
KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH}
Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 NICs.

Referenced Bulletins
132750

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-U3-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
Emulex Corporation LPm16002B-HI
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 1070015
	Checksum: dcd3a2e032be3b258f33fcfad609a3eb
	Driver Version: 0:10.4.8000.0.

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

541125

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4 - Yes Bulletin 144604 | SUSE