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

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4-Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Lenovo

10 Aug 2016
144881

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

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:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8270 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	2TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
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 Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: cd2f5f1a5d526dc27aa118a8e7544ca8

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 140704


Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 772792
	Checksum: aba1cbebe0fdab46ab7f9e416f65ff49
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: 8afbc1057aef35279a3cf050876e1a1a
	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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