Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917

Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917 - D4x)
Network Server
Lenovo Group Limited

03 Jul 2013
139570

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE10SP4 drivers are included with SLE10SP4. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-1.7_00.exe).
XEN Guests: VM Guests were configured with 1 GB of memory each leaving more memory for the Xen host. In this configuration, if the guests are configured with more memory there is a possibility that network communication could be disrupted during times of heavy system load.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
134890

Adapters and Drivers


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

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

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

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 Group Limited
P.R.China
Bei Jing
Haidian District,Shangdi Chuangye Road 6#
Bei Jing , N/A 100085
CHINA

546938

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