UCS B420 M3

UCS B420 M3
Network Server
IBM

09 Nov 2016
145026

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
UCS B420 M3; http://www.cisco.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3.0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: B420M3.2.2.6d.0.110420151418
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4650 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620NS 500GB SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-26.4

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

Referenced Bulletins
141249

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 760150f8b8d2d60cb6a5510e71a94010

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 143335
	Checksum: 02e977115a0eeca0e2b8a20e6d0aa132
	Driver Version: 2.3.0.20

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 5c05357c2a8d4082fde1978f51517464
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-rc1

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 205047
	Checksum: d24ebf35d4ea1e213792e485c506423c
	Driver Version: 1.6.0.21

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

563374

UCS B420 M3 - Yes Bulletin 145026 | SUSE