Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57A2 with 4 Blade SMP Connector

Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X57A2 with 4 Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Lenovo

16 Sep 2016
144917

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-class platform. Featuring a balanced system architecture, it eliminated bottleneck in performance and throughput. Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 embedded logical partitioning feature supports unprecedented configuration flexibility. It extends the benefits of logical partitioning to new areas of the enterprise data center, including mission-critical application servers and database servers, with minimal cost and maximum simplicity.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	0020G57200
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 08-10 (06/26/2014)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	4 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 130
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

The driver "htc-hfcldd" are used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to https://partner.hds.com. 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.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
This is SAN Boot only system.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 72.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	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 Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2016	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: c065cc61eb3c2de1cc17eb3084ae3aa2
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

3 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jan-2016	Driver Size: 466116
	Checksum: 5c4f823e688395aa1b64276a8ee81b62
	Driver Version: 4.3.13

2 Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2016	Driver Size: 1069983
	Checksum: e5b45ed2d2f8d1eb23d5915a6843a481
	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:

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

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