PRIMERGY® CX270 S2

PRIMERGY® CX270 S2
Network Server
Lenovo

19 Nov 2013
140751

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Two Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY CX270 S2 dual socket server nodes, each with a condensed half-wide 2U form factor can be packaged into the PRIMERGY CX400 S2 Multi-Node server system, including up to 8 local storage drives in a condensed 2 U rack enclosure. The server node features an optional GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) from the parallel processing NVIDIA® Tesla™ K-series or a new Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor, to provide the optimal expansion for hardware assisted acceleration in High Performance Computing, analytics and graphic processing, enabling a ten-fold performance boost in HPC applications. With 16 DIMMs for high bandwidth memory modules (1,024 GB), two top-bin CPUs out of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 family, and 3 PCIe Gen3 IO card slots (1x for GPGPU support) the server node provides great versatility for very ambitious high performance workloads. A range of powerful communication and networking low profile PCIe cards, from 1 to 10 Gb Ethernet, 56 Gb FDR Infiniband, and SAS 2.0 RAID support future proof high speed node connectivity as required in creating large scale-out infrastructures. The CX270 S2 combines high-end computational and graphics performance with high energy efficiency while using shared local fans and power supply units located in the CX400 S2 Multi-Node system. With its condensed half-wide form factor it optimizes large data center scale-out deployment by minimum rack space used and low power envelopes. For more detailed information please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=b2baf2e0-6b18-4d0a-8293-cfcdeba76850

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3196
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy Boot: Rev.4A27.3196 (09/27/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2695 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2300
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 5/6 512MB (D2616) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® ST9300605SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is 2 CPU socket configuration with 24 core dual chip module per socket, totalling 48 cores. The Power10 3.9 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 24 cores and with SMT8 totalling 384 vCPU threads.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power10 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-May-2013	Driver Size: 96096
	Checksum: 41733d0f905440b2b69759ee4d3dda05
	Driver Version: 0.92.2

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 5/6 512MB (D2616)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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