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 | Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917 - D4x)
Network Server
Lenovo | 03 Jul 2013
139570 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the IBM Flex System™ x440 Compute Node, is an Intel-processor based server optimized for high-end virtualization, mainstream database deployments, and memory-intensive high performance environments. The Flex System x440 Compute Node is a price-performance optimized 4-socket with a wide range of processors, memory, and I/O options to help you match system capabilities and cost to workloads without compromise. With a dense design, the Flex System x440 Compute Node can help reduce floor space used, and lower data center power and cooling costs.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: CNE115NUS - v1.10 (07/24/2012) |
| CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-4620 2.20 GHz |
| RAM: | 192 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 USB Ports PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, 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
- Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
- Kdump: In order to pass Kdump test the video frame buffer size needs to be changed to 32MB. The procedure is as follows 1) go to BIOS setup 2) find the "configure onboard device" under "advanced" 3) select onboard VGA configuration
4) change the frame buffer size to 64MB or 32 MB then save the changes and exit.
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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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| 2 IBM
Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 150471 |
| | Checksum: ec63c2a4a680c294fdbc13d1b60329c6 |
| | Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s |
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| LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 271655 |
| | Checksum: eb0224194b14f105753fc4173831ba1c |
| | Driver Version: 14.100.00.00 |
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