CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4 LPAR

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4 LPAR
Network Server
IBM

22 May 2018
146706

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02. Please see https://support.hitachivantara.com/download/epcra/cb50000112.pdf.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	11KJ143
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 10-14 (05/16/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 768 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 256 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 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 Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G400
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1.
Install: System installed using an external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter (82572EI GB Ethernet Controller), was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
VM Driver Pack: FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
139879

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 15-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 9543c0db503bf1f52b6304492e605509
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: b8dee794a1123732c7ba8475033703e3
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 27607888
	Checksum: 481ed8ad2b44de6826babb351887ddc7
	Driver Version: 4.12.21.4284

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:

IBM
For support regarding this configuration, please visit:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/

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