BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)

BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x)
Network Server
Lenovo

25 Jun 2012
137784

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

Product Description
The HS23E offers value for performance, with support for the new Intel® Xeon® E5-processor that processes up to 16 simultaneous threads and 1600 MHz memory. It is ideal for a variety of workloads such as business applications, virtualization, IT and web infrastructure, point of sale and smart computing.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	AHE112CUS-1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2407 2.20 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 500GB Hot-Swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe)
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD

Referenced Bulletins
142560

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 6e4febcdc166990d8ac5cfdb0dfbd20d

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 178048
	Checksum: adf71565329a321aaf4edc7cfe715997

IBM ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 185684
	Checksum: 49dc8031e60ed7597415cbef197dac45

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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BladeCenter HS23E (8038-B3x) - Yes Bulletin 137784 | SUSE