Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR
Network Server
Fujitsu

06 Feb 2019
147625

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02-65(00-01). Please see https://hitachivantara.com/en-us/products.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-61 (06/12/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 6 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1 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 (HUS) 130
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

256 CPUs require ESXi 6.7 U2 or higher update level.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP3 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 256 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Jun-2017	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 07f6bc7429407531b049ff31a0981ca8
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Dec-2018	Driver Size: 2481376
	Checksum: 78750c8b818ad0117a4ed5b5b8932f9b
	Driver Version: 4.5.1-h2

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 01-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 27630168
	Checksum: a2b6675b5c8ad7e986a128853fdecade
	Driver Version: 4.12.22.4334

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 8
München 80807
GERMANY

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