PRIMERGY® TX2550 M4

PRIMERGY® TX2550 M4
Network Server
Lenovo

16 Jul 2018
146827

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY TX2550 M4 is a brand new dual socket tower server designed for demanding business needs to deliver the highest levels of workload versatile performance, expandability and cost-effectiveness. This office ready, powerful system comes with the latest Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family CPUs with 26 cores, along with DDR4 memory technology with up to 768GB capacity and is ideal for most CPU/memory driven requirements such as demanding business applications (industryspecific, analytics apps), business processing (ERP, CRM) and virtualized workloads. The server is designed for huge expandability with up to 32 storage drives, advanced RAID and a range of high-throughput networking cards including DynamicLOM options, making it highly suitable for storage centric requirements such as collaboration/ IT infrastructure workloads and even high-data transfer web or big-data configurations. More technology advancements are on the roadmap – Up to 8 expansion slots are available for future growth. The server is designed for silent operation, ideal for offices. The server also delivers world-class reliability and energy efficiency up to 96% efficient, dual power supplies. Operation in higher ambient temperatures is ensured by the Cool-safe® Advanced Thermal Design, avoiding the need for expenditure on special cooling. Furthermore, the server supports the Fujitsu iRMC S5, to enhance admin productivity and ease server usage across the entire lifecycle. For more details, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=02f33016-5dcc-4a58-b1e2-e66a2db5cf1c

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	D3386
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.18.0 (02/22/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host: 16 GB, Max VM: 12 GB, Multiple VMs: 4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-80.1

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "hfcldd.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk (DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.22.4346.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.22.4346_4.12.14_120-1.sles12sp5.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package, go to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347937.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The driver "ixgbevf.ko" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbevf used for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Family of Server Adapters is named "intel-ixgbevf-4.6.3-h2.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbevf-kmp-default-4.6.3_k4.12.14_120-h2.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 SP5 installation. To obtain the driver go to https://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347958.html.
The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 119840
	Checksum: 0c74e55b4c00f5aebe31a5afe4d1902d

IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 87648
	Checksum: ca2c1c72914587587095caf021d3ea59

IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 87648
	Checksum: ca2c1c72914587587095caf021d3ea59

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® TX2550 M4 - Yes Bulletin 146827 | SUSE