IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737)

IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737)
Network Server
IBM

04 Nov 2014
142278

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 Lenovo Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is an Intel-processor based server optimized for virtualization, performance and highly scalable I/O designed to run a wide variety of workloads in your PureFlex System.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 6
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: B2E141AUS - v1.50 (05/08/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz
RAM:	96 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:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-97.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Hard Disk Configuration: 50 GB SSD in the blade module, the 300 GB and 73.4 GB drives in the chassis.
Install: System installed using the BladeCenter chassis DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
System was configured as 2-node scalable partition.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886

IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 19ae3e3a11c85c0940f0fde08afdedff
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 294527
	Checksum: f8d6a739b33533aa06bc1f7ea2aedc4f
	Driver Version: 18.100.00.00

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:

IBM
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IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737) - Yes Bulletin 142278 | SUSE