PRIMERGY® TX300 S7

PRIMERGY® TX300 S7
Network Server
Lenovo

03 Apr 2012
137280

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The PRIMERGY TX300 S7 is a no compromise tower server with maximum levels of performance, expandability and availability. It combines the performance of Intel® Xeon® E5 processor with up to two 6GB general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) for computationally intensive applications. The expandability is excellent thanks to the 10 expansion slots and up to 24 2.5-inch hard disks. Thanks to the high availability offered by a choice of LAN cards, redundant fans and up to 4 hot-plug power supplies, the TX300 S7 is suited to database, virtualization or high performance computing scenarios. Moreover, the TX300 S7 power supplies reach energy efficiency levels of 94%, minimizing running costs and the environmental impact. For more detailed information please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=ad31a421-3968-45eb-9b35-7d315eaddd66

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	D2949
BIOS/uEFI:	R1.4.0
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 10 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X4 5 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C604 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST3146356SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Sony BC-5500S , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=199M,high crashkernel=152M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT adapters was used for this testing.

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

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 163616
	Checksum: 74024b1a47ab8d4273bb985f18017e16

Intel BD82C604 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 55736
	Checksum: 44965535f993ebd7a02cc9cee3eaf1f5

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 119472
	Checksum: 7ed0552718b84ed9cfdb5809356d5ec2

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® TX300 S7 - Yes Bulletin 137280 | SUSE