CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4-Blade SMP Connector

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4-Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

10 Aug 2016
144881

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 1

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 E7-8880 v2 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:	00AN785
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 07-43 (03/09/2016)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	2TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
VM Driver Pack: The SLES 11 SP3 x86 and Windows guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
139165

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

4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
StorageWorks Division
11445 Compaq Center Dr. W
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com/workstations

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