Flex System x220 Compute Node (7906

Flex System x220 Compute Node (7906 - L2x)
Network Server
Lenovo

17 Jun 2012
137747

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The IBM Flex System x220 Compute Node is the next generation cost-optimized compute node designed for less demanding workloads and low-density virtualization. The x220 is efficient and equipped with flexible configuration options and advanced management to run a broad range of workloads.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	KSE114CUS - v1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620NS 500GB SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-36.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE UEFI network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 6.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=143M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
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 https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 guest. One Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters were used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 224120
	Checksum: 1eb2606cc89e29080556edcb9cace5f4

IBM ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 253048
	Checksum: 4a7cf02da81e903522d10faa86f90da3

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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Flex System x220 Compute Node (7906 - L2x) - Yes Bulletin 137747 | SUSE