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| Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917/E5-4600 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo | 26 Nov 2014
142442 |
SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified with the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
A building block for the Lenovo PureFlex System family, the Lenovo Flex System™ x440 Compute Node is a four-socket Intel Xeon processor-based server optimized for high-end virtualization, mainstream database deployments, and memory-intensive high performance environments. It is price-performance optimized 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: | PASS 4 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: CGE101FUS - v1.00 (11/04/2014) |
CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-4657L v2 2.40 GHz |
RAM: | 192 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 3 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
600GB 10K SAS 2.5-inch 6Gbps SFF HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1 |
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: each disk an individual RAID 0.
- Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV 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.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Broadcom BCM5718 Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used during this testing.
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.
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Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 98407 |
| Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63 |
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2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 256071 |
| Checksum: 9563c6d0ed104b22f6cb4532f23b69c6 |
| Driver Version: 3.136 |
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LSI Logic
SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 353319 |
| Checksum: ee3f5bb2061f4504ff7b55bde1d19981 |
| Driver Version: 18.100.00.00 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin.
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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:
support.lenovo.com
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