UCS B480 M5

UCS B480 M5
Workstation
IBM

03 Nov 2020
149879

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Cisco UCS B480 M5 with Intel Xeon 8260L CPU

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	73-17832-03
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: B480M5.4.1.2a.0.0624200115 (06/24/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260L Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	3840 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620SS 500GB 7.2K RPM 6Gbps SAS 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Toshiba Enterprise Performance HDD, 300GB, SAS (AL14SXB30ENY) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external 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.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.

Referenced Bulletins
141324

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: 0a84338d028c855ca7c2eae94404eae4

Cisco UCS VIC 1440
	Driver Type:	Driver Name: enic.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 201832

	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: a649376d8c32760e3d73ee1c44058ef7
	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-rc1

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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