 | Flex System x880 X6 (7903-R2x)
Network Server IBM | 15 Jul 2014
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
The IBM® x880 X6 is based on the Intel® Xeon® E7 chip and is scalable from a two socket server to an eight socket server. Being scalable from two to eight sockets will provide a solution that can meet customer growth and changing compute requirements. Alongside the new Intel chip is the introduction of Flash technology, a disruptive technology delivering leadership performance. The new server is aimed at database, analytics, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and virtualization workloads. It is a truly scalable solution.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: N2E107HUS - v1.00 - (04/22/2014) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz |
| RAM: | 768 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports 16 PCI Express X8 8 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
| 8 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 242863 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.129 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 13-Feb-2014 | Driver Size: 1463863 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 45d189e12f483f94ec7a4bed51377805 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 06.600.20.00 | |||||||||
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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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