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 | IBM Flex System x880 X6 (7903/E7-8800 v2)
Network Server
Hitachi Vantara | 18 Oct 2017
146073 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15 |
Product Description
The Lenovo® x880 X6 is based on the Intel® Xeon® E7 chip and is scalable from a two socket server to an eight socket server. Being scalable from two to eight sockets will provide a solution that can meet customer growth and changing compute requirements. Alongside the new Intel chip is the introduction of Flash technology, a disruptive technology delivering leadership performance. This server is aimed at database, analytics, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and virtualization workloads. It is a truly scalable solution.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Compute Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: N2E123BUS - v1.60 (02/28/2017) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v2 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | 64 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports 16 PCI Express X8 8 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | 4 IBM
ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM
500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2 |
Config Notes
- Kdump (SLE15SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=280M,high crashkernel=72M,low
- System support: Please note that for full support on the listed OS release a special SUSE support contract is necessary.
- Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP4 FV guest. One of the integrated New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd. NIC-ETH360T-Mr-2P adapters was used in this testing.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 96383 |
| | Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04 |
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| 4 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 251575 |
| | Checksum: 1c032cbbf8f4cb203bdc23d80846b9cc |
| | Driver Version: 3.137 |
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| 4 IBM
ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 236751 |
| | Checksum: c96d2df516f3a67f3960bb982a2a0b3d |
| | Driver Version: 07.701.17.00-rc1 |
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The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin.
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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
Hitachi Vantara
2535 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara
, CA
95054
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
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