Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)

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Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

11 Oct 2012
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Hitachi Unified Storage VM can manage all of your existing storage and consolidate all of your data in a single, virtualized platform to ease the management of information. Hitachi Unified Storage VM is built with trusted Hitachi reliability for application availability, performance and lower cost of ownership. Delivering enterprise storage virtualization in a unified platform lets you manage information more efficiently. • Unified architecture lets you share resources to reduce capital purchases and lower environmental cost by as much as 40%. • Ensure data is there when customers need it, with the highest availability – guaranteed at 100%, a commitment you won’t find anywhere else. • Refresh your technology to increase performance or optimize cost, with up to 90% less effort than alternatives. • Reduce storage costs up to 50% by consolidating your existing storage into a centrally managed pool of shared capacity. • Reclaim up to 65% of unused capacity in your existing storage and delay purchases of unnecessary new equipment. • Reduce management overhead by as much as 50% by enabling various storage platforms to be managed from a single point. • Increase service levels to customers through better performance and transaction rates – double those of comparable storage systems.

Tested Configuration:

Host Bus Adapter:	QLogic QLogic QLE2462 Dual-Port 4Gb Fibre Chann , FibreChannel
Test Kit:	DiskKit 5.01.38 - 2010-07-20

Product File Specifications

HBA Driver:

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm. To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346613.html. 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 "ixgbe" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbe use Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters and the driver package name is "ixgbe-kmp-default-4.1.2_k3.12.28_4-h1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346649.html
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.

Referenced Bulletins
144695

Adapters and Drivers


QLogic QLogic QLE2462 Dual-Port 4Gb Fibre Chann

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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Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) - Yes Bulletin 138622 | SUSE