HP Integrity BL870C
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Company
21 Oct 2009
130518

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for Intel® Itanium® Processor     Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10


Product Description
The HP Integrity BL870c server blade introduces the latest generation HP Integrity capabilities to the BladeSystem c-Class customer. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade is a four socket full-height server blade featuring the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 9120 dual-core processor supported by up to 96GB memory (24 DIMM slots). The BL870c features four Gigabit Ethernet ports standard, support for three standard c-Class I/O mezzanine cards and up to four internal SFF SAS hot plug disk drives. The HP Integrity BL870c server blade coexists with ProLiant server blades and StorageWorks storage blades within the c-Class enclosure.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:A4
BIOS:EFI 2.0
CPU:4 Intel®  Dual-Core Itanium® Processor 9120N 1.42 GHz
RAM:8 GB
Bus Type:PCI Express X4
2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:ATI®  ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:LSI Logic®  LSISAS1068 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
QLogic  QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:4 HP  DG072A3315 72GB SAS 10K , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:HP  SAN BOX
Test Kit:Partner certified 1.1


Config Notes
SLES 10 SP3 for IA64 was installed through FTP to core storage via core NIC.


Adapters and Drivers
ATI®  ES1000
4 Broadcom®  Integrated BCM 5704s Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: tg3.ko
File Date: 23-Aug-2009File Size: 847592
Checksum: f24070a659ba2cd5e07f07944ba56389

2 Intel®  82571EB Quad Port Gigabit Mezzanine Adapter
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: e1000.ko
File Date: 23-Aug-2009File Size: 1148688
Checksum: ac5bb9d9c68b6a958419a51b5557eb40

LSI Logic®  LSISAS1068
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: mptsas.ko
File Date: 23-Aug-2009File Size: 654632
Checksum: a6353ea6a3c252e9aea40e9208cefa1b

QLogic  QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA for HP c-Class BladeSystem
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: qla2xxx.ko
File Date: 23-Aug-2009File Size: 1209144
Checksum: 8ab2f7508c3875a094ec097eb903e3fd


The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually YES CERTIFIED components may be exchanged for other YES CERTIFIED components. For more information on swapping YES CERTIFIED components, please access the following web page:

http://developer.novell.com/devres/system/policy/exchange.htm

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Hewlett Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO   80528
Website: http://www.hp.com/workstations