BladeCenter HS23 (7875 - B6x / E5-2600 v2)

BladeCenter HS23 (7875 - B6x / E5-2600 v2)
Network Server
IBM

13 Dec 2013
140891

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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
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
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 (7875, E5-2600 v2) is a next-generation two-socket blade server running the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2. With its RAS features, energy efficiency, outstanding performance, flexible and scalable I/O, and complete systems management, HS23 offers a robust platform optimized for your mission-critical applications. Standard 30 mm single-wide form-factor protects your investments by providing compatibility with the IBM BladeCenter H, E, S, and HT chassis. BladeCenter HS23 offers four integrated LAN ports: dual-port Gigabit Ethernet and dual-port 10 Gb Ethernet with IBM Virtual Fabric capability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TKE135TUS - v1.50 (11/14/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2640 v2 2.0 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 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 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8479 and xen kernel update 8525 x86-64 are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the BladeCenter chassis DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from SUSE at http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
140837

Adapters and Drivers


Emulex Corporation Integrated BE3 controller dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 149871
	Checksum: cac5d9a1b4c6e8a5a935f6dddc7edada
	Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s

Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Emulex Corporation BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 149871
	Checksum: cac5d9a1b4c6e8a5a935f6dddc7edada
	Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 270903
	Checksum: 66952d113f446bf2a707ace5a0a7fe9d
	Driver Version: 14.100.00.00

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:
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