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| BladeCenter HS23 (7875 - A3x / E5-2600 v2)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 13 Dec 2013
140909 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
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 E5-2609 v2 2.50 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
- 768 CPUs require ESXi 7.0 U1 or higher update level.
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP2 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
- 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 15 SP2 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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Referenced Bulletins
150101
Adapters and Drivers
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Emulex Corporation
Integrated BE3 controller dual-port Gigabit Ethernet |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 150471 |
| Checksum: ec63c2a4a680c294fdbc13d1b60329c6 |
| Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s |
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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 |
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LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 271655 |
| Checksum: eb0224194b14f105753fc4173831ba1c |
| Driver Version: 14.100.00.00 |
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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:
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