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| Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737 - Q2x)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 01 Jul 2013
139335 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 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 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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Windows Server 2012 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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: | UEFI: B2E123OUS - v1.30 (03/14/2013) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2667 2.90 GHz |
| RAM: | 96 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 USB Ports
2 PCI Express X16
Serial |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
- VMware recommends to install deployPkg with open-vm-tools if creating a Template http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075048.
- Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 6128 GB of memory on a SLES 11 SP4 x86-64 guest.
- Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 11 SP4 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs.
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803. VMware guest OS installation information can be found at:http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_11.html
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 11 SP4 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013 | Driver Size: 190720 |
| | Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5 |
| | Driver Version: 1.4.11 |
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| Emulex Corporation
OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Adapter OCe11102-N (Dual Port) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 149687 |
| | Checksum: ccd5e20c73b18cd30b5f486e87e79186 |
| | Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s |
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| IBM
ServeRAID H1135 SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 270935 |
| | Checksum: 30d3e55b9d7ecc7e61e3d264c5bbe3b3 |
| | Driver Version: 14.100.00.00 |
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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:
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