CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4 Blade SMP Connector

CB500 Compute Blade 520X B1 with 4 Blade SMP Connector
Network Server
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

27 Sep 2016
144946

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

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:	BIOS: 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

The driver "htc-hfcldd" was used during testing and is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk (DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.20.4110.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.20.4110_3.12.49_11-1.sles12sp1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, access https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
This is SAN boot only system.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

4 Hitachi 8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 01-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 11807848
	Checksum: 56d5b1d2265db49a8c09f237aeea037d
	Driver Version: 4.12.20.4110

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:

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara , CA 95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hds.com

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