UCS B420 M4

UCS B420 M4
Network Server
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.

25 Jan 2017
145359

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
UCS B420 M4; http://www.cisco.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	4.0
BIOS/uEFI:	B420M4.3.1.2e.0.083020161203
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4620 v4 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host: 128 GB; Max VM: 112 GB; Multiple VMs: 36 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Cisco UCS VIC 1340 (HBA) , FibreChannel LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620NS 500GB SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

Cisco UCS VIC 1340 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 136391
	Checksum: 90ba577148441aaca41080a0ad24fd39
	Driver Version: 2.1.1.83

Cisco UCS VIC 1340 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 205135
	Checksum: 6a473a7275c51f74df57a0a2f88b5cee
	Driver Version: 1.6.0.17

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
	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

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
670 N. McCarthy Boulevard
Milpitas , CA 95035

579054

UCS B420 M4 - Yes Bulletin 145359 | SUSE