ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.0

ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.0
Network Server
StackVelocity

23 Feb 2017
145493

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The ClearPath Forward™ fabric delivers the cost effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux opera ting systems. ClearPath Forward fabric blends industry standard fabric technolog y with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical archite cture on Intel X86. The ClearPath Forward™ Release 4.0 (PEPP) 1-Socket platform is applicable to all Unisys ClearPath Forward models, including ClearPath Forward, ClearPath Forward Libra 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, & 8390 as well as Clear Path Forward Dorado 4350, 4370, 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, 8390, and ES3000 3520R G4

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Unisys 0DY523 Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: (12/15/2009)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 96 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 28 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 84 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Unisys Virtual Video Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unisys Virtual Hard Disk Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE UEFI network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 6.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=112M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

Adapters and Drivers


Unisys Virtual Video Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 23688
	Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56
	Driver Version: 0.4.1

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virthbamod.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Jun-2016	Driver Size: 64280

	Driver Version: 4.4.14.29877

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Jun-2016	Driver Size: 109304

	Driver Version: 4.4.14.29877

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:

StackVelocity
6375 San Ignacio Avenue
San Jose , CA 95119
Voice: (727) 577-9749
Website: http://www.stackvelocity.com

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