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 | Flex System x240 Compute Node (E5-2600 v2 / 8737-34x)
Network Server
IBM | 03 Apr 2012
140701 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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Windows Server 2008 |
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Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The IBM® Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers outstanding performance for virtualization with new levels of CPU performance and memory capacity, and flexible configuration options. Now available with Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 processors, the x240 Compute Node is an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads, armed with advanced management capabilities that allow you to manage your physical and virtual IT resources from a single pane of glass.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 7 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: B2E135MUS - v1.40 (10/02/2013) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor X5650 2.66 GHz |
| RAM: | 384 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
G200eV |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM
ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM
73GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5 SFF Slim-HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Fujitsu
MBB2073RC
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG
GCC-T20N
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2 |
Config Notes
- Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Storage configuration: separate RAID 0 drives. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200eV |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010 | Driver Size: 190624 |
| | Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010 | Driver Size: 119648 |
| | Checksum: 0db02386302b52c6b5b0425a2235a9d7 |
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| Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010 | Driver Size: 46680 |
| | Checksum: a4077eeea266ee64888245b840828db1 |
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| IBM
ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010 | Driver Size: 87304 |
| | Checksum: 6edcddbe0eb527293c4f88f792051d47 |
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The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin.
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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
IBM
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