Express 5800/R120d-2M (E5-2650)

Express 5800/R120d-2M (E5-2650)
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Feb 2013
138923

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The NEC Express5800/R120d-2M, a scalable compact dual-socket 2U rack server built on the Intel® Xeon® E5-2650 processors, offers excellent performance, reliability, and energy savings. Its green technology enables the operation in temperatures of 40°C (104°F) to lower air conditioning costs for server rooms. The R120d-2M supports large memory capacity which is perfect for high data volume processing and future growth of your business.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	04S
BIOS/uEFI:	4.6.1010
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2650 2.00 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC106045CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28S-Y , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used during this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141559

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 174712
	Checksum: 34ada57de469915d1dc3833aa1f21893

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 159104
	Checksum: 2546e8c28684dbc731493da70e520580

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 39428
	Checksum: 412973ed4d4192889f9e13bcb1e6b1c0

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 104276
	Checksum: b264957e70523303e4f3762023a1ddc8

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
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