CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2
Network Server
IBM

01 Dec 2016
145105

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM 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:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-06 (04/16/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express , FibreChannel Hitachi SAS 3004 iMR ROMB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM2, adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
140207

Adapters and Drivers


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

Hitachi OCL14104-U2-HI 4 port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

Emulex Corporation LightPulse LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 1111119
	Checksum: 30bd24f43c2b2857a36b952459e7710d
	Driver Version: 0:10.2.8040.1

Hitachi SAS 3004 iMR ROMB
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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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