PRIMERGY® BX2580 M2

PRIMERGY® BX2580 M2
Network Server
Supermicro Computer

29 Jul 2016
144869

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Optimized for a broad spectrum of workloads including virtualized workloads, consolidating applications as well as ERP and CRM applications, the PRIMERGY BX2580 M2 provides dense computing features with ultra-large memory capabilities. The server blade delivers improved performance for data centers and remote sites. Based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5- 2600 v4 product family, it offers up to 1536 GB of memory (24 DIMM slots) and up to two disk drives. The PRIMERGY BX2580 M2 offers exceptional levels of flexibility and I/O throughput to run the most demanding applications. The system is equipped with a dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB)-capable LAN on motherboard (LOM) that supports NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE and can in addition be configured with two mezzanine cards. The onboard converged network adapter can be partitioned in up to eight physical functions pert port that can be dynamically configured. The adapters serve as a common interface for both storage and IP traffic retaining familiar FC and networking software stacks, OS drivers, and management.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3321
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: R1.4.0 (03/17/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Intel SSD DC S3700 Series 400GB (SSDSC2BA40) , 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® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 524567
	Checksum: ea67ead62c08bc1d779ca8f94688f21b

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 124048
	Checksum: bed8e78793d30a8ec1b55a623d5647a3
	Driver Version: 1.6.3

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

Fujitsu DynamicLOM based on Emulex XE100 series (2x 10Gbit/s)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 199527
	Checksum: 6756afc6bc3be90c3ddf639f1c284f58
	Driver Version: 10.6.0.2

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 64759
	Checksum: 2b582bd14e5672b9371a9d873e785b85
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Supermicro Computer
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose , CA 95131
Website: https://www.supermicro.com/

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