CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2
Network Server
HP Inc.

15 Dec 2015
143879

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 combines the high-end features needed in today's mission critical data center with the high compute density and adaptable architecture you need to lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more information, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-17 (09/11/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port. Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: RAID 0.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in Memory Mode only.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP5 guest. One of the Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

Hitachi OCL14104-U2-HI 4 port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 11620897
	Checksum: 4a68c22bea8194ffd51d459ad4c4c963
	Driver Version: 4.12.18.3146

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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:

HP Inc.
Workstations & Thin Clients
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

601866

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B2 - Yes Bulletin 143879 | SUSE