HP Integrity BL870C

HP Integrity BL870C
Network Server
IBM

21 Oct 2009
130518

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
The HP Integrity BL870c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade is a four socket full-height server blade featuring the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 9120 dual-core processor supported by up to 96GB memory (24 DIMM slots). The BL870c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to four internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade coexists with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A4
BIOS/uEFI:	EFI 2.0
CPU:	4 Intel Dual-Core Itanium® Processor 9120N 1.42 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS) QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	4 HP DG072A3315 72GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	HP SAN BOX
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing.
SLES Virtual Machine Guests Setting: Cache mode was set to "none" for NIC tests to succeed. This setting is found under Virtual machine details > Disk > Advance Options > Performance Options.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
139866

Adapters and Drivers


4 Broadcom® Integrated BCM 5704s Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 847592
	Checksum: f24070a659ba2cd5e07f07944ba56389

2 Intel 82571EB Quad Port Gigabit Mezzanine Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 1148688
	Checksum: ac5bb9d9c68b6a958419a51b5557eb40

LSI Logic LSISAS1068
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 654632
	Checksum: a6353ea6a3c252e9aea40e9208cefa1b

QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 23-Aug-2009	Driver Size: 1209144
	Checksum: 8ab2f7508c3875a094ec097eb903e3fd

ATI ES1000

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HP Integrity BL870C - Yes Bulletin 130518 | SUSE