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![](/nbswebapp/YES.png) | novascale® BL275+
Network Server
IBM | 16 Jul 2012
137969 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Windows Server 2008 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
Do more in the data center you own with BULL novascale® BL275+. This efficient server helps you manage big data and is ideal for a wide variety of workloads including virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. New integrated 10 GbE Virtual Fabric provides high networking bandwidth. Sixteen DIMM slots deliver more and larger virtual machines per blade compared to previous generations.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Blade Module |
Mother Board Revision: | GA |
BIOS/uEFI: | TKE111MUS-1.01 |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2680 2.70 GHz |
RAM: | 64 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X8 |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2 |
Config Notes
- Network: System uses one of the Intel I350-AM4 quad-port network adapter ports for the dedicated Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) connection. Leaving three network ports available for the standard user network.
- Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 (M1115) and RAID 0 (H1110).
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel® I350-AM4 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.
- VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
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Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 190688 |
| Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f |
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Emulex Corporation
BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 113768 |
| Checksum: 6968b924ac4cde8c657bb00064d8ee51 |
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LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 253616 |
| Checksum: 42efe92ff9ed835c2e12250a2dc5e1e3 |
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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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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