|
 | Lenovo System x3950 X6 (E7 v3 with DDR3) (6241)
Network Server
Lenovo | 17 Jul 2015
143474 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
|
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN
Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
Product Description
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 server is an eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server that represents the sixth generation of the Lenovo Enterprise X-Architecture®. It delivers innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, availability, and serviceability features to enable optimal performance for mission-critical databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The x3950 X6 packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density, 8U rack-optimized lid-less package that helps to significantly reduce the space that is needed to support massive network computing operations and simplify servicing. The x3950 X6 supports up to eight Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 or v2 high-performance processors and up to 12 TB of memory.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A9E121VUS - v1.00 (04/01/2015) |
| RAM: | 128 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 PCI Express X16 6 PCI Express X8 2 Serial 14 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | 2 IBM
ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | Lenovo
1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5 inch G3HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo
900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch G3HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.4.0-27.1 |
Config Notes
- Power management: Hibernation/Suspend to Disk/ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
- Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
- Graphics: Video driver used in this configuration is SolidDriver-compliant and may be installed by adding http://download.nvidia.com/novell/sle11sp3 as a software repository then installing the nvidia-gfx04 packages.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
|
Referenced Bulletins
143060
Adapters and Drivers
| | | | | |
| Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 190720 |
| | Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30 |
| | Driver Version: 1.4.11 |
|
| Broadcom®
BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 249143 |
| | Checksum: 77b485a7f58111db611a492d32c7a6ed |
| | Driver Version: 3.137 |
|
| Intel
X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ixgbe.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 392063 |
| | Checksum: dbf4d5ee3f86e60c41d44f0b5448c122 |
| | Driver Version: 3.19.1-k |
|
| Intel
I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: igb.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 334639 |
| | Checksum: 280cf5049209e38d9569d1edaf6d85c6 |
| | Driver Version: 5.2.15-k |
|
| 2 IBM
ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 175903 |
| | Checksum: 02182393085b12ea0c8db34857f15f72 |
| | Driver Version: 06.806.08.00-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
|