HP Integrity BL860c

HP Integrity BL860c
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

04 Jun 2010
132643

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel® Itanium® Processor Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The HP Integrity BL860c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. The HP Integrity BL860c server blade is a two socket full-height blade server featuring three models of the latest Intel Itanium 2 dual-core processors supported by up to 48GB memory (12 DIMM slots). The BL860c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to two internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL860c server blade coexists perfectly with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A3
BIOS/uEFI:	04.21
CPU:	Intel Itanium® 2 1.6 GHz
RAM:	2 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP DG036A8B53, 36 GB, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS) HP DG146ABAB4 146GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	HP
USB Mouse:	HP
Test Kit:	Partner certified 1.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
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
141338

Adapters and Drivers


LSI Logic LSISAS 1068
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 175640
	Checksum: cc6f633a9983666bd96cbd17f2ec33ab

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM 5704s Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 394288
	Checksum: 338e45576e4b38c752f93c218e4e1377

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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