Flex System x480 X6 Compute Node (7196/E7-8800 v3)

Flex System x480 X6 Compute Node (7196/E7-8800 v3)
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Nov 2016
144999

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Node, machine type 7196, is a high-performance scalable compute node that is designed to take on the most demanding workloads. The performance, flexibility, and resiliency features enable the X6 to run mission-critical workloads, such as key business applications, database, analytics, and large virtual machine deployments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: N3E130EUS - v2.20 (03/30/2016)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 8 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All 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-2.2.exe).
Maintenance update: SLES 12 kernel update 136 is required and was installed during certification testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
142667

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: cb1ebf472219e91c929cd8428f4336d9

Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 207607
	Checksum: 2f99e82b3b614e81eb0e1b5e7c5e612b
	Driver Version: 11.0.0.0

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 6f0f2744d7b1f0f3a2ccf6ca5c182a50
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-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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