ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.1 IC3

ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.1 IC3
Network Server
Lenovo Group Limited

24 Nov 2020
150010

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLED 11

Product Description
The ClearPath Forward™ fabric delivers the cost-effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux operating systems. ClearPath Forward fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The ClearPath Forward™ Release 4.1 IC3 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform is applicable to all Unisys ClearPath Forward models that support a Fabric, including ClearPath Forward, ClearPath Forward Libra 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, & 8390, 6400/8400 as well as ClearPath Forward Dorado 4350, 4370, 4380, 4390, 6380, 6390, 8380, 8390, 4480, 4490, 6480, 6490, 8480, 8490 and ES3000 3560R G4.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Unisys 0H5J4J Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2667 v2 3.30 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 384 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 124 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 372 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Unisys Virtual Video Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unisys Virtual Hard Disk Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Sound: Recording on an external microphone is not supported on this system.
Power Management: System does not support standby.
PLDP Driver: The Nvidia Graphics driver used during testing is PLDP compliant and was installed from the following rpm: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-pae-195.36.15_2.6.32.11_0.3-7.i586.rpm and x11-video-nvidiaG02-195.36.15-5.i586.rpm. This driver can be downloaded and installed after the SLED install. To obtain the driver go to: http://download.nvidia.com/novell/sle11sp1
Power management: Hibernation / Suspend to Disk / ACPI S4 and Sleep / Suspend to RAM / ACPI S3 are supported on this system. To enable Sleep and Hibernate,the following step is needed: modprobe -r xhci
To enable Brightness,edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf add " Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" "to section device.
Install: On the “Search for linux partitions”step,select "NO" in the pop up message box.

Adapters and Drivers


Unisys Virtual Video Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 23696

	Driver Version: 0.4.4

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: visorhba.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Sep-2020	Driver Size: 34456

	Driver Version: 2.20.8.19

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: visornic.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Sep-2020	Driver Size: 51864

	Driver Version: 2.20.8.19

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 Group Limited
P.R.China
Bei Jing
Haidian District,Shangdi Chuangye Road 6#
Bei Jing , N/A 100085
CHINA

542506

ClearPath Forward Fabric 4.1 IC3 - Yes Bulletin 150010 | SUSE