BULLION S4

BULLION S4
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

31 Oct 2016
144970

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The BULLION S4 has 4 Intel Xeon E7 v4 processors with a memory capacity of 6TB.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	11074283-006
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 114.33 (03/16/2016)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST600MM0006 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	NEC M310
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=221M,high crashkernel=182M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: two separate RAID 0 devices.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


2 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 345735
	Checksum: c6e591217c50d8be57599231598a6801
	Driver Version: 5.2.18-k

2 Emulex Corporation OCe14102-NM (Dual port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 199527
	Checksum: 6756afc6bc3be90c3ddf639f1c284f58
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

2 Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 1136335
	Checksum: dcf2b7e6acd24f0680007292ef5ddfae
	Driver Version: 0:10.5.0.2

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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