PRIMERGY® TX150 S8

PRIMERGY® TX150 S8
Network Server
Lenovo

29 Aug 2012
138457

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The PRIMERGY TX150 S8 stands for reliable and expandable server performance for SMEs, branch offices and virtualized environments. New to the PRIMERGY TX150 platform: The Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 processor family provides a maximum of expandability in an one-socket server. Future demand is perfectly covered by 5 PCIe Gen2/3 expansion slots, up to 96 GB of memory and up to 16 hard disk drives. At the same time the optional redundant power supply units and fans ensure stable and reliable computing. And of course: Fujitsu’s patented Cool-safe™ concept together with processors of the Intel® E5-2400 family guarantee best energy efficient performance. For more details please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=83a8daa0-eebb-4c68-8e97-d45f92eed6d1

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	D3079
BIOS/uEFI:	R1.6.0
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2440 2.40 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X1 32-bit/33MHz PCI 9 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146853SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST CDDVDW SN-208AB , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports (system also has one integrated USB port). System was scaled up to 4-sockets by joining two x480 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=6G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=163M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
145383

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 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 224480
	Checksum: 9dd765f715a0ee82d6428cdb425792d5

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 68024
	Checksum: 24a55b3289035ed77c631a6370bb00e2

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9261-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 131640
	Checksum: 7e4aa46a1bf609dd0be6697b574c1c82

The term SUSE YES 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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