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![](/nbswebapp/YES.png) | CB2500 Compute Blade 520H B3
Network Server
IBM | 04 Mar 2016
144144 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM |
Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 delivers enterprise computing power and performance, as well as unprecedented scalability and configuration flexibility, with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 processor, to help you lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and enables multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more details, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Compute Module |
Mother Board Revision: | 00KJ105 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: 08-35 (06/17/2015) |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v3 2.60 GHz |
RAM: | 224 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | USB Ports |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS-3 3008
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Hitachi
16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
, FibreChannel |
Hard Disk Drive: | Seagate®
Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS)
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 (VSP G1000) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4 |
Config Notes
- Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=165M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
- Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.
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Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 190720 |
| Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30 |
| Driver Version: 1.4.11 |
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Hitachi
OCl14104-U3-HI 4-port 10GbE |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 175527 |
| Checksum: e1db06703d4a5ae9c34354f370e79bc5 |
| Driver Version: 10.4s |
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LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 |
Hitachi
16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: hfcldd.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Nov-2015 | Driver Size: 11762185 |
| Checksum: c9851224449e9618b47054efec2876fb |
| Driver Version: 4.11.18.3154 |
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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
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