CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4 Blade SMP Connector

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4 Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Lenovo

22 Sep 2016
144925

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

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:	00AN720
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 07-45 (05/20/2016)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	6 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card , FibreChannel
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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in AppDirect Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP5 guest. One of the Lenovo ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet 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

4 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

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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