Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532)

Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

17 Dec 2015
143917

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers new security, efficiency, and reliability features to handle business-critical workloads. The blade server is based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor with as many as 18 cores and uses new IBM TruDDR4 Memory running at speeds up to 2133 MHz

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C4E105MUS - v1.13 - (07/07/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v3 2.60 GHz
RAM:	168 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo DC P3600 SSD 400GB [2.5" SFF] , NVMe IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-14.3

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.
System was tested with an Intel I210-T1 added as a second network adapter. The standard system configuration does not include the I210-T1 adapter.

Referenced Bulletins
143033

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 98639
	Checksum: 213728ad1d23cc3234baba627dc97723

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 197959
	Checksum: 91bffbecaee274dcbd553d35c0e42fe7
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 190951
	Checksum: 6b164e0300bd4e040478ee0f6430d7ed
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 122839
	Checksum: 68ce6a5da519b856173fb64ae9cde3d0
	Driver Version: 1.0

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
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

570060

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