|
| BladeCenter HS23 (7875/E5-2600)
Network Server
IBM | 05 Feb 2015
142676 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS23 (7875, E5-2600) is a next-generation two-socket blade server running the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors. With its industry-leading 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: TKE139YUS - v1.60 (05/04/2014) |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2650L 1.80 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 7.3.0-113.3 |
Config Notes
- Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
- VM Driver Pack: All 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 http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- 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.
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
|
Referenced Bulletins
141555
Adapters and Drivers
| | | | | |
Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 97711 |
| Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41 |
|
Emulex Corporation
BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 177151 |
| Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7 |
| Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s |
|
Emulex Corporation
Integrated BE3 controller dual-port Gigabit Ethernet |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 177151 |
| Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7 |
| Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s |
|
LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 353335 |
| Checksum: 4607b47693e001c4cd8e1dc98fd88c11 |
| Driver Version: 18.100.00.00 |
|
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:
www.ibm.com
|