PRIMERGY® BX2580 M1

PRIMERGY® BX2580 M1
Network Server
Lenovo

16 Jun 2015
143298

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Optimized for extensive virtualization and consolidation projects, the FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY BX2580 M1 offers versatile performance to be able to cope with the dramatic increase of data and digital information. The PRIMERGY BX2580 M1 is built with the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processor family, up to 1,536 GB of DDR4 memory (with 64 GB DIMMs), up to two 1,8” SSD drives, as well as further boot options by local UFM and SATADOM flash devices. It offers exceptional levels of flexibility and I/O throughput to run the most demanding applications. This server blade maximizes the number of virtual machines per server and reduces the hardware requirements for your virtualized environment with 24 DIMM slots and up to 36 cores. This extreme memory density and number of cores are critical elements for a variety of workloads including demanding high performance computing applications. In addition it provides the possibility to scale the network throughput to match individual application needs with the integrated dual-channel 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Universal Converged Network Adapter and two further mezzanine card options. For more detailed information, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=48c3c546-5c2f-4f60-bdd9-bf40448cefa4

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3321
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.18.0 (03/19/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2609 v3 1.90 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu 6 Gbit/s SAS RAID Mezzanine Card , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 400GB (SSDSC1NB400G401) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141555

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 124048
	Checksum: bed8e78793d30a8ec1b55a623d5647a3
	Driver Version: 1.6.3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 523055
	Checksum: 24f1502cad78a842cfa8f8c86ed2de25

Fujitsu DynamicLOM based on Emulex XE100 series (2x 10Gbit/s)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Dec-2014	Driver Size: 204744
	Checksum: 103ff3c1b422bb7e9db816aa54f2e917
	Driver Version: 10.2.405.22

Fujitsu 6 Gbit/s SAS RAID Mezzanine Card
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

564587

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