Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR
Network Server
IBM

27 Oct 2017
146133

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02. Please see http://www.hds.com/products/compute-blade/compute-blade-2500.html.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-48 (02/07/2017)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 6 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1 TB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 4 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
Host Bus Adapter:	Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter , FibreChannel
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: HDD - single SATA drive, M.2 boot drive with two SSDs configured as a RAID 0.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports, system also has one built-in USB port.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 15-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 9543c0db503bf1f52b6304492e605509
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Feb-2017	Driver Size: 9746224
	Checksum: 537df3626588b014553bde4022ff5bbc
	Driver Version: 4.4.6-h1

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 27607888
	Checksum: 481ed8ad2b44de6826babb351887ddc7
	Driver Version: 4.12.21.4284

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:
www.ibm.com

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