BladeCenter HS23 (7875/E5-2600)

BladeCenter HS23 (7875/E5-2600)
Network Server
Lenovo

20 Mar 2016
144212

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The BladeCenter® HS23 (7875, E5-2600) is a next-generation two-socket blade server running the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor. 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 Lenovo 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 Lenovo Virtual Fabric capability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TKEG49BUS - v1.90 (11/18/2015)
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 G200eR2
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 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=144M,high crashkernel=112M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. The Emulex BE3 dual-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 98639
	Checksum: ff1bbc7b82a873445970305851e40d18

Emulex Corporation Integrated BE3 controller dual-port Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 197959
	Checksum: d9dfe18c4d0a085c868def8025fac38a
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

Emulex Corporation BladeEngine 3 - 10Gb Dual-Port Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 197959
	Checksum: d9dfe18c4d0a085c868def8025fac38a
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 355847
	Checksum: e9aa486600ac9b3c43a62e4e4b324249
	Driver Version: 20.100.00.00

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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