Flex System x240 Compute Node (E5-2600 v2 / 8737-84x)

Flex System x240 Compute Node (E5-2600 v2 / 8737-84x)
Network Server
Beijing Neu Cloud Oriental System Technology Co., Ltd.

11 Nov 2013
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The IBM® Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers outstanding performance for virtualization with new levels of CPU performance and memory capacity, and flexible configuration options. Now available with Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 processors, the x240 Compute Node is an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads, armed with advanced management capabilities that allow you to manage your physical and virtual IT resources from a single pane of glass.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: B2E135MUS - v1.40 (10/02/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v2 3.0 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	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: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=153M,high crashkernel=112M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing. SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.

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

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:

Beijing Neu Cloud Oriental System Technology Co., Ltd.
No. 8 Xueqing Road,Haidian District
2/F,Tower A, Technology Fortune Center
Beijing 100192
CHINA
Voice: (86)1082736669-8028
Toll Free: 400-689-1666
Fax: (86)1082736631
Website: http://www.nco-china.com.cn

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Flex System x240 Compute Node (E5-2600 v2 / 8737-84x) - Yes Bulletin 140714 | SUSE