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| BladeCenter HX5 with MAX5 (7873-AC1)
Network Server
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation | 11 Oct 2011
136255 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The IBM BladeCenter HX5 supports up to two of the latest generation Intel processors. Two HX5 servers can be connected together for a high-performance single image with four processors and up to 512 GB of RAM in a blade form factor. For applications that need to maximize available memory but that do not need four processors, a single HX5 server can be attached to a MAX5 memory expansion blade to form a single image with two processors and up to 640 GB of RAM. This level of processing and memory capacity is ideal for large-scale database or virtualization requirements.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | HIE160YUS - v1.60 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8867L 2.13 GHz |
| RAM: | 640 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1 |
Config Notes
- Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
- This is SAN Boot only system.
- The driver "htc-hfcldd" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.20.4110.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.20.4110_3.12.49_11-1.sles12sp1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain the DUD and the driver package, go to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". The DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
- The driver "ixgbevf" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbevf uses Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters and the driver package name is "intel-ixgbevf-3.2.2-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbevf-kmp-default-3.2.2_k3.12.49_11-2.1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 install. To obtain the DUD and the driver package, go to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads".
- The Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port) is the physical adapter in the system. The Intel 82599EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller is the adapter that is presented to the VM and tested during virtualization testing.
- The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled that can be allocated to LPAR is 240.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 173128 |
| | Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9 |
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| Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 224440 |
| | Checksum: 7f09c2163ed8665f9b349b7d775151c0 |
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| LSI Logic
SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 93904 |
| | Checksum: aaa4a851751d4fe198683ef91694f133 |
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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:
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara
, CA
95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hds.com
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