PRIMERGY® RX2520 M4

PRIMERGY® RX2520 M4
Network Server
Lenovo

28 Nov 2017
146305

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2520 M4 is an efficient and scalable platform for essential business applications. As a dual socket rack server it features the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family processors with up to 384 GB RAM. The PRIMERGY RX2520 delivers an especially well balanced price / performance ratio making it ideal for baseline datacenter workloads i.e. for collaboration platforms or storage-hungry applications. Its compact PRIMERGY 2U modular chassis provides storage demanding applications and services a powerful environment of up to twelve 3.5-inch or up to twenty four 2.5-inch storage drives. Furthermore, the RX2520 M4 is prepared for individual future demands by offering further various modular options and upgrade kits for LAN, RAID and storage. Power supply units with 96% efficiency and the enhanced iRMC S5 remote management will result in lower operational costs. For more details, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=57157f8d-4b3d-412f-b262-0687398c8aa6

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3386
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.10 (09/21/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 5122 Processor 3.60 GHz
RAM:	Host: 16 GB, Max VM: 12 GB, Multiple VMs: 4GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID CP400i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST UltraStar C10K1800 HUC101830CSS204 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=281M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. SSD Drive Configuration: RAID 6. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the internal VFA5 ML2 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146905

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 20-Apr-2017	Driver Size: 526352
	Checksum: 481f753061a3a5a03b3d84029a122197
	Driver Version: 2.0.23

Fujitsu PRAID CP400i

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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PRIMERGY® RX2520 M4 - Yes Bulletin 146305 | SUSE