PRIMERGY® RX900 S2

PRIMERGY® RX900 S2
Network Server
IBM

01 Jul 2011
135869

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
PRIMERGY RX900 S2 is a new x86 based 8-socket rack server, designed for mission-critical back-end services, scale-up corporate workloads and high performance database processing. It constitutes a highly scalable, next-generation Intel Xeon processor E7-8850 based server that significantly extends the economic advantages of x86 industry standard scale-up solutions. It scales the usage patterns for single standard operating system deployment to new frontiers far beyond the 4 socket standard x86 server class. PRIMERGY RX900 S2 provides extreme scalability as regards the processing performance (80 cores), memory expandability and its aggregated peak I/O bandwidth of more than 100 Gigabyte/s with 16x PCIe slots and 2x 10 GbE + 6x 1 GbE onboard. It scales up linearly for I/O, memory and CPUs inside the 8 U rack system unit without the need for infrastructure changes. Very large corporate databases and heavy load transactional processing applications, where response time and throughput is paramount, will benefit best from the platform's efficient scalability and high I/O bandwidth. Likewise, corporate SAP/ERP, Decision Support services and Business Intelligence solutions, where performance for time-to-results constitutes the business critical value, will profit from its enormous processing power. For more detailed information please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=6f788cb9-7ac3-4841-b1db-19e099732737

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3144
BIOS/uEFI:	01.01
CPU:	6 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8850 2.0 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	15 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4 7 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Fujitsu MBE2147RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Sony BC-5500S , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing.
SLES Virtual Machine Guests Setting: Cache mode was set to "none" for NIC tests to succeed. This setting is found under Virtual machine details > Disk > Advance Options > Performance Options.
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
139866

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

2 Intel 82599EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 235912
	Checksum: 820c31ffc14b2f7a01319116a98bc0d0

6 Intel 82576NS Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 173032
	Checksum: e885a7dabd215037973a22c40566a353

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 131640
	Checksum: 7e4aa46a1bf609dd0be6697b574c1c82

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: a3f37a00c24677981ed4bf2bbca089fb

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/

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PRIMERGY® RX900 S2 - Yes Bulletin 135869 | SUSE