Compute Blade 520X B3

Compute Blade 520X B3
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

17 Jun 2018
146731

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Please see https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products.html.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	555G301D23GXXM0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 11-18 (03/05/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	12 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 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 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled that can be allocated from LPAR is 48.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, go to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
This is SAN Boot only system.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

4 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Feb-2018	Driver Size: 9939344
	Checksum: f032f0a770f3515629564ea7ea6f79b6
	Driver Version: 5.3.5-h1

2 Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 251575
	Checksum: 1c032cbbf8f4cb203bdc23d80846b9cc
	Driver Version: 3.137

2 Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Feb-2018	Driver Size: 27602048
	Checksum: bf5674752db0de78df7b1aa5c1470b23
	Driver Version: 4.12.21.4310

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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