Hitachi Advanced Server HA825 G3

Hitachi Advanced Server HA825 G3
Network Server
IBM

23 Aug 2023
152628

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
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Gen11
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.32 (05/29/2023)
CPU:	2 AMD EPYC™ 9754 2.25 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200eH3
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE MR216i-o Gen11 Storage Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 HPE 7.68TB SAS 24G Read Intensive SFF BC Multi Vendor SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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 ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 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: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/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. G200eH3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 17999
	Checksum: 70e2e804042165de727265150a5ba2f5

Intel Ethernet 1Gb 4-port Base-T I350-T4 for OCP 3.0 Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 133614
	Checksum: a02abff3db3974186b0bfb2a68639857

HPE MR216i-o Gen11 Storage Controller
	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:

IBM
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Hitachi Advanced Server HA825 G3 - Yes Bulletin 152628 | SUSE