ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.0

ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.0
Network Server
New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.

27 Feb 2017
145502

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

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 operating systems. ClearPath Forward fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The ClearPath Forward™ Release 4.0 (PEPP) 4-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 ClearPath Forward Dorado 4350, 4370, 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, 8390, and ES3000 3590R G3.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Unisys 0Y4CNC Rev. A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: (12/15/2009)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 2 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 678 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 1.98 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 6 PCI Express X16 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

**NOTE**: Certified with HP preloaded version of SLED 11 SP2. Tested with preload image version 21.14.0
Kdump: Crash kernel dump and capture does not function properly on this system and is therefore not supported.
Power Management: /boot/grub/menu.lst must be modified to enable hibernate functionality. Modfications: Change "root=LABEL=ROOT" to "root=/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT" and "resume=LABEL=SWAP" to "resume=/dev/disk/by-label/SWAP".
Power Management: Throttling at max state 10 does not function and therefore is not supported.

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: 64280

	Driver Version: 4.4.14.29877

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:

New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
466 Changhe Road
Binjiang District
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
CHINA

557896

ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.0 - Yes Bulletin 145502 | SUSE