CH221 V5

CH221 V5
Network Server
IBM

13 May 2019
148024

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
https://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/e-series/ch221-v5-node

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	V100R006
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 6.52 (03/16/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® SAS3508 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Enterprise Performance 10K HDD, SAS, 900GB (ST900MM0168) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

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), and the virtio drivers was used.
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, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter 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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141668

Adapters and Drivers


Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Jun-2017	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 07f6bc7429407531b049ff31a0981ca8
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

2 Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 17-Nov-2018	Driver Size: 8918904
	Checksum: 9b9b8ebf20dbc9041db998cfb8b03005
	Driver Version: 2.7.12

Broadcom® SAS3508
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Jul-2018	Driver Size: 2094175
	Checksum: c1ebddf015b1facd486b9397e20f4075
	Driver Version: 07.706.07.00

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
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CH221 V5 - Yes Bulletin 148024 | SUSE