Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v4)

Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Lenovo

07 Apr 2016
144404

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers enhanced security, efficiency, and reliability features to handle business-critical workloads. The blade server incorporates up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. The processors feature up to 22 cores each and use new lightning-fast Lenovo TruDDR4 memory, which runs at speeds up to 2400 MHz. Suggested uses: database, virtualization, enterprise applications, collaboration and email, streaming media, Web, HPC, and cloud applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C4E121WUS - v2.01 - (02/19/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	168 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo DC P3600 SSD 400GB [2.5" SFF] , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-23.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter was used in this testing.
Maintenance update: Update patch:SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-263/qemu 263 is needed and was installed on the KVM host.

Adapters and Drivers


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

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 199527
	Checksum: 6756afc6bc3be90c3ddf639f1c284f58
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

IBM ServeRAID M1210e 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

Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 123407
	Checksum: 8c072e0ec6c8d6cf59715c222ce62666
	Driver Version: 1.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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