Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Apr 2020
149264

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02-69(00-02). Please see https://hitachivantara.com/en-us/products.html.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	555G301D23GXXM0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 11-26 (11/25/2019)
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 8.4.0-41.2

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Watchdog: This system does not support the Watchdog Timer.

Referenced Bulletins
147627

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jan-2020	Driver Size: 11456208
	Checksum: 77f6e4f56453b00dcc4335885c38207d
	Driver Version: 5.6.5-h1b

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jan-2020	Driver Size: 27897872
	Checksum: c5efb486fd17e4a92d18b0e007253462
	Driver Version: 4.12.22.4346

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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Compute Blade 520X B3 LPAR - Yes Bulletin 149264 | SUSE