XH628 V3

XH628 V3
Network Server
Unisys Corporation

25 Feb 2015
142829

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

Product Description
http://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/x-series/xh628-v3

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	V100R003
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: 1.28 (01/14/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital RE4 WD1003FBYX , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

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.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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: TheUnisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/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, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141627

Adapters and Drivers


Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 01-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 23624
	Checksum: b0bcae2b3561015d3e6d1b7b1720623c
	Driver Version: 0.4.4

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 06-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 44472
	Checksum: f212c9276b4bce5820bfe4500db351e9
	Driver Version: 0.9.0

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 255327
	Checksum: e18cc27309231e8a0bb40c95f18a30f2
	Driver Version: 3.136

LSI Logic SAS 3008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 355191
	Checksum: 96c97ecc814b1db180773efee1399680
	Driver Version: 04.100.00.00

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:

Unisys Corporation
Unisys Way
Blue Bell , PA 19424
Voice: 408-434-2600
Fax: 408-434-2688
Website: http://www.unisys.com

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