Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-M2x)

Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-M2x)
Network Server
IBM

10 May 2012
137585

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the IBM Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is an Intel-processor based server optimized for virtualization, performance and highly scalable I/O designed to run a wide variety of workloads in your PureFlex System.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	B2E111QUS-1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5675 3.06 GHz
RAM:	98 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP MK0060EAVDR , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: RAID 0. Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=283M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 18328
	Checksum: 57f8381d876d1d46b1306a2e881dfe75

HP NC553i Dual Port 10Gb Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Jun-2010	Driver Size: 77969
	Checksum: 8f947d4f3eac526219eca8887d8d45a1

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 38728
	Checksum: 0570b3a7035f99e94edbcf12f33799db

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