Thomas Krenn Storage Appliance V3.0 for Software Defined Storage

Thomas Krenn Storage Appliance V3.0 for Software Defined Storage
SUSE Enterprise Storage Solution
Thomas-Krenn.AG

30 Dec 2019
148986

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Enterprise Storage 6

Product Description
Software Defined Storage Appliance with a total storage capacity of 128 TB SATA HDD storage. It includes 4x OSD nodes, 1x admin node and 2x 24port 10GBit switch. In addition each OSD node has 2x 375 GB U.2 NVMe Optane for bluestore meta data and 2x 240 GB SATA SSD for OS. For more information about our certified SUSE Servers (SLES/SES) visit: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/

Tested Configuration:

Test Kit:

SUSE Enterprise Storage Certification Kit 1.2.0-3.4

Config Notes

Install: SLES OS installation was performed by using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "i40e" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from "intel-i40e-2.1.26-20.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-i40e-kmp-default-2.1.26_k4.4.21_69-20.1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain the driver package, access to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". RPM can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "megaraid_sas" that was used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from "lsi-megaraid_sas-kmp-default-07.704.04.00_k4.4.21_69-6.1.x86_64.rpm". To obtain the driver package, access to https://sso.hds.com and click on "Support Connect", then select "Product Downloads". RPM can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
All ports of Intel XXV710-DA2 Ethernet Network Adapters were tested at 25Gb/s speed.

Adapters and Drivers

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:

Thomas-Krenn.AG
Speltenbach-Steinacker 1
Freyung, Bayern (Bavarian) 94078
GERMANY

587962

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