Flex System x240 (7162/E5-2600 v2)

Flex System x240 (7162/E5-2600 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Oct 2017
146042

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System™ x240 Compute Node (machine type 7162) is a high-performance server that offers outstanding performance for virtualization with new levels of CPU performance and memory capacity, and flexible configuration options. With Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, the x240 Compute Node is an efficient server that is designed to run a broad range of workloads, armed with advanced management capabilities that allow you to manage your physical and virtual IT resources from a single pane of glass. Suggested uses: Database, virtualization, enterprise applications, collaboration and email, streaming media, web, HPC, and cloud applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A3E113C - v1.60 (12/16/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon Processor E5-2628L v2 1.90 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 16 GB, single max VM guest: 12 GB, multiple VM guests: 3 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
SLES Quarterly update: SLES 15 SP5 QU1 is required and was installed before YES Certification testing. The download is available from https://scc.suse.com/products/2465 . The iso image name is SLE-15-SP5-Full-x86_64-QU1-Media1.iso.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP5 FV guest. One port of the Intel Ethernet 1Gb 4-port Base-T I350-T4 for OCP 3.0 Adapter was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 214975
	Checksum: 9723522b5a37f2eec4d33a5b0ccd9075
	Driver Version: 11.1.0.0

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 399263
	Checksum: 34cbd79c3f6d7643255eacba1a5628ad
	Driver Version: 15.100.00.00

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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Flex System x240 (7162/E5-2600 v2) - Yes Bulletin 146042 | SUSE