PRIMERGY® BX960 S1

PRIMERGY® BX960 S1
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Oct 2010
133835

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The PRIMERGY BX960 S1 server blade enables the use of the next generation Intel® Xeon® processors with 8 cores and two threads. In conjunction with the QuickPath architecture and the on-chip memory controllers, these processors enable a greatly increased Server Blade performance in contrast to the predecessor generations. Four of these processors can be used in the BX960 S1 Server Blade, together with up to 32 DDR3 RDIMM main memory modules and two Dual-Channel Intel 82599 based 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers onboard. Up to two SSD data media and four Mezzanine I/O cards complete this full-height server blade (single width). The perfect alignment of processor performance, main memory capacity and I/O bandwidth makes the PRIMERGY BX960 S1 ideal, on the one hand as a consolidation platform with virtualization solutions, on the other hand, as a server which efficiently and reliably meets the high-level requirements for database management systems for medium and large-sized databases. For more detailed information please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=f0e1190f-1a96-4a40-9cf4-29ca90e08c24

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D2873
BIOS/uEFI:	1.03.2873
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor L7555 1.86 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: PXE boot and network install requires the "?device=eth0" to be added to the install server boot process.
Xen host: system requires the latest Xen hypervisor and dom0 maintenance updates.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP1 and SLES 10 SP4 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe).
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.

Referenced Bulletins
137657

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 96a33dda383f3a9a0105217ce9af245a

4 Intel 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Feb-2010	Driver Size: 206871
	Checksum: a25b8e1825c4dd10b704a4d12044fa6f

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 51600
	Checksum: a0ff737708185a51f37be27c35121d9d

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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PRIMERGY® BX960 S1 - Yes Bulletin 133835 | SUSE