BladeCenter HX5 (7873) 1 Node with MAX5

BladeCenter HX5 (7873) 1 Node with MAX5
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

30 Jan 2015
142670

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	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: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	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. With MAX5, HX5 offers large amounts of memory, giving you the ability to reduce software license costs by expanding memory capacity with MAX5 without purchasing additional processors.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: HIE183XUS - v1.83 (07/17/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	160 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eV
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	3 IBM 300 GB 15K HS 3.5-inch SAS HDD , FibreChannel 2 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" are used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.21.4284.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.21.4284_4.4.21_69-1.sles12sp2.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347379.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "ixgbe" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbe used for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters is named "ixgbe-kmp-default-4.4.6_k4.4.21_69-h1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12SP2 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347198.html.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 98407
	Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 134247
	Checksum: ed1797e36d5ccd77105f35bc8cb3ae16
	Driver Version: 2.2.5

LSI Logic SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 85311
	Checksum: 998f7e92f8c08362b22e6dfdaee6d866
	Driver Version: 3.04.20

IBM QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card (CIOv)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 1003079
	Checksum: 668b4acba416c542410e4805cb1edf92
	Driver Version: 8.07.00.08.12.0-

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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