Lenovo BD530 FC

Lenovo BD530 FC
Network Server
IBM

31 Jan 2013
138875

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
This server is a Blade server. For more information please go to http://www.lenovo.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.01
BIOS/uEFI:	1.0a
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® ST9900805SS 900GB 6Gbp/s SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

256 CPUs require ESXi 6.7 U2 or higher update level.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP5 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 256 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP5 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 246368
	Checksum: fcb34e6c5610ff2a00a5460f065817e6

Intel 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 307608
	Checksum: 770a309320d8bb981100db86b8875f19

LSI Logic LSISAS 2308 SAS Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 253616
	Checksum: 42efe92ff9ed835c2e12250a2dc5e1e3

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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Lenovo BD530 FC - Yes Bulletin 138875 | SUSE