IBM zEnterprise® BladeCenter® Extension zBX (2458)

IBM zEnterprise® BladeCenter® Extension zBX (2458)
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

16 Mar 2015
142958

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

4 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
IBM zEnterprise zBX, running IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) blades

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Host Platform: zBX Model 4 System
BIOS/uEFI:	zBX Firmware: HIE183AUS-1.83
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-2830 2.13 GHz
RAM:	Assignable Host Memory: 176 GB / VM Guests: 44 GB, Max VM Guest Tested Memory (SLES 12): 176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:	Cirrus Logic Cirrus CL-GD5446
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Virtual 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (Natoma/Triton II) , IDE IBM Virtio Block Device , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM QEMU Emulated IDE , IDE IBM QEMU Virtual Hard Disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	IBM QEMU DVD-ROM , IDE
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: The Unisys 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: https://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


Cirrus Logic Cirrus CL-GD5446
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: cirrus.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 59031


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: cirrus_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 19416

	Driver Version: 1.5.2

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 523055
	Checksum: 24f1502cad78a842cfa8f8c86ed2de25

IBM Virtual 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (Natoma/Triton II)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 53815

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 13951

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 31495


IBM Virtual Realtek RTL-8139 Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: 8139cp.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 52943

	Driver Version: 1.3

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: 8139too.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 69079

	Driver Version: 0.9.28

IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 52775


IBM Virtual 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 259895

	Driver Version: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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