Superdome Flex

Superdome Flex
Network Server
Unisys Corporation

23 Jan 2023
151902

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
HPE Superdome Flex is a mission-critical platform flexible and powerful enough to handle the massive and growing amount of data moving through your business. Its in-memory design and unparalleled scale give you the ability to analyze data from the digital core to the intelligent edge in real time, keeping you a step ahead. And because the infrastructure is modular and cloud-ready, it's the right fit for any business of any size. Keep pace with your evolving in-memory computing demands through a unique modular design. Start small and grow as needed, flexibly scaling up or out. With high-end RAS and end-to-end security, HPE Superdome Flex safeguards your vital workloads. Our broad services portfolio and partner ecosystem, and mission-critical expertise help turn data into insight, so you can turn insight into action,and action into success with peace of mind that your business will be always on.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: Bundle:3.60.50 SFW:IP147.007.007.014.000.2209151500 (09/15/2022)
CPU:	32 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280L Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	48 TB
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i
Hard Disk Drive:	2 HPI MM2000GEFRA G8-G10 2-TB 6G 7.2K , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.1-52.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), using the virtio driver for testing.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
SUSE Driver Kit: The Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: https://drivers.suse.com/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141626

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 17999
	Checksum: 70e2e804042165de727265150a5ba2f5

2 HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-May-2022	Driver Size: 208740
	Checksum: 0a8b523360af748629800bbbff66fa93

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-4i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 91281
	Checksum: 73fe8023764e189c76be50188530b557
	Driver Version: 07.719.03.00-rc1

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:

Unisys Corporation
Unisys Way
Blue Bell , PA 19424
Voice: 408-434-2600
Fax: 408-434-2688
Website: http://www.unisys.com

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Superdome Flex - Yes Bulletin 151902 | SUSE