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 | Express5800/A1040c
Network Server
IBM | 13 Jul 2016
144827 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
NEC Express5800/A1040c(NX7700x/A3010M-4 in Japan) is an enterprise-class 4-socket 4U server based on the Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3. The server offers the highest level of performance, easy management and efficiency needed for compute-intensive and memory-hungry applications in physical and virtualized environment.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Super Server |
| Mother Board Revision: | D05. |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: 5.6.0200 (05/27/2015) |
| CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 2 TB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 6 USB Ports 13 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
Millennium G200 SE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
BD82C602J PCH
, Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS 9362-8I
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 24 Hitachi GST
Ultrastar C10K1800 HUC101860CSS200
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 8 Hitachi GST
Ultrastar C10K1800 HUC101890CSS200
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Panasonic
DVD-ROM UJ8G2
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4 |
Config Notes
- Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=2 (parameters are required, values can be changed).
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 SP4 FV guest. One of the internal Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT adapters was used for this testing.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
Millennium G200 SE |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 190720 |
| | Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30 |
| | Driver Version: 1.4.11 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
BCM57810 10Gb Network Adapter (DualPort) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2x.ko |
| | Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 1035919 |
| | Checksum: 9fb169e658f862c29c7b6ba13948d3e5 |
| | Driver Version: 1.710.51-0 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 249143 |
| | Checksum: ceed4fcec3c2fa76027c456bc8e570d4 |
| | Driver Version: 3.137 |
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| LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e |
| Intel
BD82C602J PCH |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| | Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 58775 |
| | Checksum: 7a0c250f60b9ac6b9684c7be9f36b03e |
| | Driver Version: 3.0 |
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| LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS 9362-8I |
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