CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4 Blade SMP Connector

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

22 Sep 2016
144926

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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:	00AN720
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 07-45 (05/20/2016)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel
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

Install: System installed using the BladeCenter chassis 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 FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Emulex BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 11620897
	Checksum: 4a68c22bea8194ffd51d459ad4c4c963
	Driver Version: 4.12.18.3146

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
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