Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR
Network Server
Netweb Technologies India Ltd.

27 Feb 2017
145501

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 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 Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02. Please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	555G301D23GXXM0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 11-04 (09/15/2016)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 8 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 2 TB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 4 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: two HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives configured as separate RAID 1 devices.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=266M,high crashkernel=162M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 01-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 23624
	Checksum: b0bcae2b3561015d3e6d1b7b1720623c
	Driver Version: 0.4.4

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 31-Aug-2015	Driver Size: 48632
	Checksum: 57782c9896c7af5627626c7b4ad45d31
	Driver Version: 0.9.0

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Jul-2016	Driver Size: 2172452
	Checksum: 1d9f7aa643fa45c593ac9cf555e2db0d
	Driver Version: 3.2.2

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 01-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 11807848
	Checksum: 56d5b1d2265db49a8c09f237aeea037d
	Driver Version: 4.12.20.4110

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:

Netweb Technologies India Ltd.
Plot H1, Pocket-9, Faridabad Industrial Town
Sector-57, Ballabhgarh
Faridabad, Haryana 121004
INDIA
Voice: +91-129-2310400
Fax: +91-129-2310470
Website: www.netwebindia.com

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