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| VMware ESXi 6.5
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc. | 20 Sep 2018
147080 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
4
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
VMware ESXi is a complete, scalable and robust virtualization platform. Designed to reduce capital and operation costs. Maximize IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, SUSE® Linux Enterprise OS and hardware.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Virtual Machine |
Mother Board Revision: | Intel 440 BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0 |
BIOS/uEFI: | BIOS Boot: 6.00 (04/05/2016) |
CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz |
RAM: | Host Platform: 6 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1500 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest: 6128 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | Serial Parallel Port 3 PCI-ISA 4 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X8 |
Video Adapter: | VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
Host Bus Adapter: | VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA) VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter
, SCSI VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | VMware®
Virtual Hard Disk rev:1.0 (SCSI)
, SCSI VMware®
Virtual disk rev:1.0 (IDE)
, IDE |
CD/DVD: | VMware®
VMware SATA CD00
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2 |
Config Notes
- Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
- VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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Referenced Bulletins
141555
Adapters and Drivers
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VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: vmwgfx.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 609096 |
| Checksum: 60e2a2ca02d7b0cdc5dd3924751ee6a4 |
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VMware®
VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 114888 |
| Checksum: 4db86595f67b59810ae0fe450d2c40cb |
| Driver Version: 1.4.a.0-k |
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VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 79168 |
| Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef |
| Driver Version: 3.0 |
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VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 52048 |
| Checksum: ec2d918941f19487fb24f5361f007d48 |
| Driver Version: 1.0.7.0-k |
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VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_generic.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 15320 |
| Checksum: 5597f80a2e7314f8951d09c6aa585ec2 |
| Driver Version: 0.2.15 |
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| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 58304 |
| Checksum: 98c8b156360e831c60a4f6b092658e79 |
| Driver Version: 2.13 |
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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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