 | BladeCenter HX5 (7873 - BJx/BBx)
Network Server IBM | 01 Jul 2013
139186 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for IBM zSeries® Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2012 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HX5 server is a blade server based on the fifth generation of the Enterprise X-Architecture®, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. *Provide optimal performance for your demanding virtualization and database applications * Reduce qualification time by standardizing on same system for two- and four-socket server needs * Scale memory without adding CPUs or software licenses * Get faster time to value by deploying workload-optimized systems
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: HIE177ZUS - v1.77 (11/15/2012) |
| CPU: | 4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4830 2.13 GHz |
| RAM: | 192 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | QLogic
ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
, FibreChannel 2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM
3.5-inch 300GB 15K SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, FibreChannel 4 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.9 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200 VE | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013 | Driver Size: 190720 | ||||||||
| Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 1.4.11 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 31-May-2013 | Driver Size: 127583 | ||||||||
| Checksum: e942e14791496d7ca6cf4d7f16aa9bfb | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 2.2.3 | |||||||||
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| QLogic ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 31-May-2013 | Driver Size: 784495 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 8d8dd99eb6f58daa495d26432a58c641 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 8.04.00.13.11.3- | |||||||||
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| 2 LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 31-May-2013 | Driver Size: 110383 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 5f1238e964072311a04c3255554f991c | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 4.28.00.01suse | |||||||||
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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
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