Hitachi Advanced Server DS7020

Hitachi Advanced Server DS7020
Network Server
IBM

05 Oct 2020
149820

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The Hitachi Advanced Server DS7020 has up to 2 Intel Xeon 8176 processors with a memory capacity of up to 1.5TB.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	-12001509-006
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: BIOS_PUR043.37.14.121 (06/02/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® MEGARAID SAS 9361-16I , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C627 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® Exos 15E900, 600 GB, SAS (ST600MP0136) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Micron 5200, 480 GB, SATA (MTFDDAK480TDC) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports, system also has one built-in USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: HDD - single SATA drive, M.2 boot drive - two SSD configured as a RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 102080
	Checksum: 07cad92cf9d842281e5e704f469b323c

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 496992
	Checksum: 1bbdfabf69501dd0a3c43a5e18035bd4
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 760616
	Checksum: 7266d27d397e793c77e347c30a4fe464
	Driver Version: 2.7.6-k

Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx MCX4121A-XCAT (Dual Port) 10GB/s
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 1446704
	Checksum: 0a131dd262dbf1a1443b03b27c083bbc
	Driver Version: 5.0-0

Broadcom® MEGARAID SAS 9361-16I
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 296104
	Checksum: 0c021a1293826b2f98a1f58789f0ebda
	Driver Version: 07.707.50.00-rc1

Intel C627 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288
	Checksum: cda6f840da0973af652a5672382ed473
	Driver Version: 3.0

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