Express5800/A1040c

Express5800/A1040c
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Jul 2016
144827

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

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

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=177M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device two disk RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the internal X550-T2 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


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

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

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

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

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9362-8I

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
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