Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR

Compute Blade 520X B2 LPAR
Network Server
Supermicro Computer

06 Feb 2019
147624

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The Hitachi logical partitioning manager (LPAR) firmware version is 02-65(00-01). Please see https://hitachivantara.com/en-us/products.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	00MN607
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 09-61 (06/12/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 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 (HUS) 130
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

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.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


Hitachi Virtual VGA compatible controller
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Jun-2017	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 07f6bc7429407531b049ff31a0981ca8
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 22-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 9958608
	Checksum: 5f03368fa8d06f1c2ff311de1434ba57
	Driver Version: 5.3.5-h1a

Hitachi 16Gb 2-port Fibre Channel adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: hfcldd.ko
	Driver Date: 01-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 27630168
	Checksum: a2b6675b5c8ad7e986a128853fdecade
	Driver Version: 4.12.22.4334

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:

Supermicro Computer
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose , CA 95131
Website: https://www.supermicro.com/

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