UCS B420 M3

UCS B420 M3
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Nov 2016
145026

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
UCS B420 M3; http://www.cisco.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	3.0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: B420M3.2.2.6d.0.110420151418
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4650 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620NS 500GB SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	EMC Symmetrix VMAX
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-26.4

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 5 w/hot swap drive. 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=169M,high crashkernel=122M,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 the one of the SLES 12 guests. The IBM x3750 M4 Dual port 10 GB-T Ethernet adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 760150f8b8d2d60cb6a5510e71a94010

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (NIC)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 143335
	Checksum: 02e977115a0eeca0e2b8a20e6d0aa132
	Driver Version: 2.3.0.20

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 5c05357c2a8d4082fde1978f51517464
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-rc1

Cisco UCS VIC 1280 (HBA)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: fnic.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 205047
	Checksum: d24ebf35d4ea1e213792e485c506423c
	Driver Version: 1.6.0.21

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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