Lenovo Flex System x240 Compute Node (7162)

Lenovo Flex System x240 Compute Node (7162)
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

04 Aug 2015
143536

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Other Products:

SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 7 - Admin & Control Node

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System™ x240 Compute Node (machine type 7162) is a high-performance server that offers outstanding performance for virtualization with new levels of CPU performance and memory capacity, and flexible configuration options. With Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, the x240 Compute Node is an efficient server that is designed to run a broad range of workloads, armed with advanced management capabilities that allow you to manage your physical and virtual IT resources from a single pane of glass. Suggested uses: Database, virtualization, enterprise applications, collaboration and email, streaming media, web, HPC, Microsoft RemoteFX, and cloud applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A3E103IUS - v1.10 - (03/29/2015)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1270 3.40 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST1100
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD3400 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD2500AAJS , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVDRAM GSA-H60N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
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
141338

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST1100
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 55476
	Checksum: 640ce65d8bb28a93390054d50d546704

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2010	Driver Size: 2380528


Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 2623727
	Checksum: ad506e3ad161c65e5125792fd82a779f

Intel Integrated 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 2623727
	Checksum: ad506e3ad161c65e5125792fd82a779f

Intel BD3400 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 62340
	Checksum: c0303a65df5455b70631897347b72d16

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

563649

Lenovo Flex System x240 Compute Node (7162) - Yes Bulletin 143536 | SUSE