PRIMERGY® BX620 S3

PRIMERGY® BX620 S3
Network Server
IBM

25 Nov 2009
130820

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The new PRIMERGY BX620 S3 server blade provides several future oriented technologies in case of processor (dual core), memory (FBD, extended mirroring), storage (modular storage controller configuration) and 2.5 inch SAS or SATA hard disk drives. Based on those capabilities the PRIMERGY BX620 S3 enables customers to run larger applications compared to existing PRIMERGY BX600 Dual Server Blades. With its new modular design for different requirements, the customer can create specific configurations in combination with SAS or SATA hard disks to meet different usage scenarios. For example a customer can create a low cost platform with SATA hard disk and the SATA storage module or featured platform with SAS hard disks and a SAS storage module, which can take up a PCI Express card in addition. For high demands regarding security a SAS storage module with RAID1 and Cache/iTBBU is offered. All those configurations can be established very easy in the factory or in the field, because the different storage modules come with an intelligent mounting cage for the server blade front.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D2280
BIOS/uEFI:	Rev.3B40.2280
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5310 1.60 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973401SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

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. The system also has one internal 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: single disk JBOD. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=273M,high crashkernel=162M,low using YaST.
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), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the integrated Lenovo CN4052 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 605728
	Checksum: 7206f6384c3ece573e2f36326d02bf0d

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 207328
	Checksum: 3024a231374e877d9e549e8e281363d9

LSI Logic LSISAS 1068
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 89744
	Checksum: 65d34d5b30f4572b988ebc8df936d5e6

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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PRIMERGY® BX620 S3 - Yes Bulletin 130820 | SUSE