CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

27 Apr 2016
144501

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

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:	11KJ143
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 10-00 (01/29/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
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 ULTRASTAR C15K600, 300GB, SAS (HUC156030CSS204) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G200
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=173M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-sockets by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (parameter values can be changed).
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports (each node also has an internal USB port).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


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

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

Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 11762185
	Checksum: c9851224449e9618b47054efec2876fb
	Driver Version: 4.11.18.3154

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

585198

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B4 - Yes Bulletin 144501 | SUSE