CB2500 Compute Blade 520H B4

CB2500 Compute Blade 520H B4
Network Server
IBM

23 Jan 2017
145353

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 delivers enterprise computing power and performance, as well as unprecedented scalability and configuration flexibility, with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 processor, to help you lower costs and protect investment. The flexible architecture and logical partitioning feature of Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 allow configurations to exactly match application needs, and enables multiple applications to easily and securely co-exist in the same chassis. For more details, please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	11KJ143
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 10-06 (09/15/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Emulex Corporation LPe16002B , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G1000
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Required configuration: SLES 11 SP3 will run in POWER7 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER8 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER7 processor with SMT4.
SUSE update ISO: The SLES-11-SP3-MINI-ISO-power8.iso is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This update must be downloaded and used before SUSE Linux Enterprise Server install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-POWER/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html and review the installation instructions.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.

Adapters and Drivers


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

Hitachi OCl14104-U3-HI 4-port 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 199527
	Checksum: 6756afc6bc3be90c3ddf639f1c284f58
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 01-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 8668008
	Checksum: e406f2d8f969500e9dbe274376b98ced
	Driver Version: 4.4.6-h1

Emulex Corporation LPe16002B
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 1136335
	Checksum: dcf2b7e6acd24f0680007292ef5ddfae
	Driver Version: 0:10.5.0.2

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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