ISSUE

This article clarifies the certification status of the HP Integrity Superdome X with BL920s Gen8 Blades with higher specifications (such as RAM or CPU) than the amounts listed as supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7) on the supported limits page at:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits

Environment

RHEL6.5
RHEL7.0
Superdome X
12TB Memory
480 Logical Cores

Resolution

In order to achieve certification with configurations that exceed the supported CPU and memory amounts for RHEL6, and RHEL7 qualifying systems are subjected to Extended Engineering Testing beyond the normal hardware certification tests.

The HP Integrity Superdome X with BL920s Gen8 Blades has been tested with 12TB of RAM and 480 logical processor cores to ensure that operating beyond the published limits would not cause any issues.