NeXtScale nx360 M5 (5465)

NeXtScale nx360 M5 (5465)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

22 Dec 2014
142576

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLED 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Lenovo NeXtScale System™ is the next generation of dense computing. It is an open, flexible, and simple data center solution for users of technical computing, grid deployments, analytics workloads, and large-scale cloud and virtualization infrastructures. The Lenovo NeXtScale n1200 enclosure and new Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5 server are designed to optimize density and performance within typical data center infrastructure limits. The 6U NeXtScale n1200 enclosure fits in a standard 19-inch rack and up to 12 nx360 M5 servers can be installed into the enclosure. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon v3 processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: THE104CUS - v1.01 (10/22/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 146 GB 10K SFF HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: two seperate RAID 1 devices. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16 (parameters are required, the specific values can be changed).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=264M,high crashkernel=172M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5717 Gigabit Ethernet (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 242863
	Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06
	Driver Version: 3.129

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2014	Driver Size: 1464227
	Checksum: 167f2b262d242c27fe2094e0456093a9
	Driver Version: 06.602.03.00

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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