Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X55R3

Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 X55R3
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

12 Nov 2012
138689

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 blade server is an enterprise-class platform. Featuring a balanced system architecture, it eliminates bottlenecks in performance and throughput. Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 embedded logical partitioning feature supports flexible configurations. It extends the benefits of logical partitioning to new areas of the enterprise data center, including mission-critical application servers and database servers, with minimal cost and maximum simplicity.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	0020G55310
BIOS/uEFI:	4.6.4.1
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2603 1.80 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Emulex Corporation LPe1205-HI , FibreChannel LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9266-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Fujitsu MDB2300RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
The kernel was then updated with the following kernel update: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=s57IyOa_Iw8~
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Watchdog: This system does not support the Watchdog Timer.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 183096
	Checksum: 65c37c8b6c899e96647bd9c0ba87a12c

Emulex Corporation LPe1205-HI
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 744096
	Checksum: 91c268d071fd9c553f2eae01678ecdde

Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9266-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 131640

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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