Flex System x222 Compute Node (7916

Flex System x222 Compute Node (7916 - N2x)
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

05 May 2015
143104

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The ES7000 Model 7600R G4 Server is a scalable, Intel-based server that delivers high performance, reliability, memory capacity and virtualization density for mission-critical workloads and large databases. The ES7000 Model 7600R G4 Server is positioned as an ideal solution for High-density virtualization and consolidation. Complex database environments, with memory expansion not tied to processors. Transaction intensive applications, with processor scalability and lower cost per transaction.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: CCE125DUS - v1.00 - (07/26/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 500 GB 7.2K SATA Simple-Swap HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

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.
Install: System installed using an PXE netowork boot; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: two HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives configured each as separate RAID 1.
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), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 113768
	Checksum: 6968b924ac4cde8c657bb00064d8ee51

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 52464
	Checksum: 8e7f557e5cfe98455deef90148417821

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 Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

585220

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