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 | Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917/E5-4600 v2)
Network Server
Kyocera Mita Corporation | 26 Nov 2014
142447 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| NetWare® 6.5 Support Pack 8 for NetWare® 6.5 |
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: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
- KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH}
- KVM Guest / Maintenance update: The SLE10SP3 maintenance kernel (201000920) was installed on the guest to address network connection problems. Kernel patch installed: kernel-bigsmp-2.6.16.60-0.69.1.i586.rpm.
- KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 NICs.
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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: 97711 |
| | Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41 |
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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: 255327 |
| | Checksum: e18cc27309231e8a0bb40c95f18a30f2 |
| | 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: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 353335 |
| | Checksum: 4607b47693e001c4cd8e1dc98fd88c11 |
| | Driver Version: 18.100.00.00 |
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For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
Kyocera Mita Corporation
2-28, 1-Chome, Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku
Osaka
540-8585
JAPAN
Voice: +81-6-6764-3555
Fax: +81-6-6764-3980
Website: www.kyoceramita.com
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