Forward! by Unisys™ Release 2.0 IC-2 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform

Forward! by Unisys™ Release 2.0 IC-2 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

20 Nov 2014
142409

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Forward! by Unisys™ fabric delivers the cost effective power, scalability, predictable performance, and security to support mission-critical applications running on SUSE Linux operating systems. Forward! fabric blends industry standard fabric technology with decades of mission critical expertise to deliver mission critical architecture on Intel X86. The The Forward! by Unisys™ Release 2.0 IC-2 (PEPP) 2-Socket platform is applicable to Unisys models Forward! 2080, Forward! 2100, Dorado 4350, Dorado 4370, Dorado 4380, Dorado 4390, Dorado 6380, Dorado 6390, Libra 4380, Libra 4390, Libra 6380, Libra 6390, Libra 8380, Libra 8390, 3560R G4.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: Unisys 0H5J4J Rev. A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.23 (12/15/2009)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2667 v2 3.30 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 384 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 124 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 372 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Unisys Virtual Video Controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Unisys Virtual Hard Disk Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Maintenance updates: Xen 8479 (bnc#836239) and Linux Kernel 9329 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16"
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html

Referenced Bulletins
141694

Adapters and Drivers


Unisys Virtual Video Controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 23688
	Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56
	Driver Version: 0.4.1

Unisys Virtual SCSI storage controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virthbamod.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Nov-2014	Driver Size: 61592

	Driver Version: 4.1.22.24902

Unisys Virtual Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtnicmod.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Nov-2014	Driver Size: 105128

	Driver Version: 4.1.22.24902

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

565050

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