NeXtScale nx360 M4 (5455)

NeXtScale nx360 M4 (5455)
Network Server
Lenovo

14 Jan 2016
144026

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
Lenovo NeXtScale System is an HPC offering from Lenovo. This dense offering is based on our experience with Lenovo iDataPlex® and Lenovo BladeCenter® along with a tight focus on emerging and future client requirements. The Lenovo NeXtScale n1200 enclosure and Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M4 server are designed to optimize density and performance within typical data center infrastructure limits. The 6U NeXtScale n1200 enclosure fits in a standard 19-inch rack and up to twelve nx360 M4 servers can be installed into the enclosure. With increased computing power per watt and the Intel® Xeon® processor, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 4
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: FHE112AUS - v1.50 (08/28/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2418L v2 2.00 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 250 GB 2.5-inch 6 Gbps simple-swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

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.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal 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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 345735
	Checksum: c6e591217c50d8be57599231598a6801
	Driver Version: 5.2.18-k

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-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

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