CB500 Compute Blade 520H B2

CB500 Compute Blade 520H B2
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

03 Mar 2017
145507

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 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:	GG-RV3XGC0B2X1-Y
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: EP1066 (01/22/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) Hitachi 8Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) 150
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Power management: System/Processor does NOT support dynamic CPU frequency scaling.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kdump SLE15: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M,high using YaST.
PTF update: SLES 15 kernel PTF suse_installer_update-sle15-ppc64le-1.0.iso is required and was installed during certification testing. The PTF can be downloaded from: https://drivers.suse.com/suse/installer-update/sle-15-ppc64le/1.0/install-readme.html

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 OCl11102-F-HI
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 175527
	Checksum: e1db06703d4a5ae9c34354f370e79bc5
	Driver Version: 10.4s

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 282159
	Checksum: 099b557ca954bbc129f1dfec43e27899
	Driver Version: 20.100.00.00

Hitachi 8Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 11762185
	Checksum: c9851224449e9618b47054efec2876fb
	Driver Version: 4.11.18.3154

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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