Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR
Network Server
Lenovo

05 Jan 2020
148995

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02-68(00-00). Please see https://hitachivantara.com/en-us/products.html.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	555G301D23GXXM0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 11-25 (08/22/2019)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 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 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1 and RAID 5.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=178M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 90480
	Checksum: 744f77cb3540b03be6df669405c714c4
	Driver Version: 1.19.6

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 2672072
	Checksum: 6afdeb8a36152460148c94b9a26fd08c
	Driver Version: 4.6.1-h2

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 27-Mar-2019	Driver Size: 27882256
	Checksum: de1b05ef466fae12c4e431c73f1fcb8a
	Driver Version: 4.12.22.4340

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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