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 | CB2500 Compute Blade 520X B2 with 4 Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
IBM | 26 Oct 2016
144956 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
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 E7-8890 v3 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: | 00MN607 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: 09-37 (06/22/2016) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 6 TB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | 2 Hitachi
16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
, FibreChannel |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000 |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4 |
Config Notes
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- XEN Guests: VM Guests were configured with 1 GB of memory each leaving more memory for the Xen host. In this configuration, if the guests are configured with more memory there is a possibility that network communication could be disrupted during times of heavy system load.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE10SP4 drivers are included with SLE10SP4. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-1.7_00.exe).
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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Referenced Bulletins
135305
Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015 | Driver Size: 97943 |
| | Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d |
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| 4 Intel
Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ixgbe.ko |
| | Driver Date: 01-Sep-2016 | Driver Size: 8668008 |
| | Checksum: e406f2d8f969500e9dbe274376b98ced |
| | Driver Version: 4.4.6-h1 |
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| 2 Hitachi
16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: hfcldd.ko |
| | Driver Date: 01-Sep-2016 | Driver Size: 11807848 |
| | Checksum: 56d5b1d2265db49a8c09f237aeea037d |
| | Driver Version: 4.12.20.4110 |
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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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