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| IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873/E7-4800) - 2 Node
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 05 Feb 2017
145394 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| 2
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2016 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The Lenovo BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. Provide optimal performance for your demanding virtualization and database applications. Reduce qualification time by standardizing on same system for two- and four-socket server needs. Scale memory without adding CPUs or software licenses. Get faster time to value by deploying workload-optimized systems.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: HIE183XUS - v1.83 (07/17/2014) |
| CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz |
| RAM: | 192 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
G200eV |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
, FibreChannel
LSI Logic
SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | IBM
IBM System Storage DS3400 |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1 |
Config Notes
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP3 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200eV |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 95983 |
| | Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 131439 |
| | Checksum: d7db243a30287529402281994db603c3 |
| | Driver Version: 2.2.6 |
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| IBM
QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 1055647 |
| | Checksum: 03acfff2ca43c9abc850a5d4418006c4 |
| | Driver Version: 8.07.00.33-k |
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| LSI Logic
SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 83367 |
| | Checksum: ef931152fe96372a6c049382fe5ce8fa |
| | Driver Version: 3.04.20 |
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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:
VMware, Inc.
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Palo Alto
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