Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v4)

Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

16 Jul 2018
146880

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers enhanced security, efficiency, and reliability features to handle business-critical workloads. The blade server incorporates up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. The processors feature advanced multi-core and use new lightning-fast Lenovo TruDDR4 memory, which runs at speeds up to 2400 MHz. 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 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C4E133J - v2.60 (02/05/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 168 GB, multiple VM guests: 30 GB each, single max VM guest: 128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 10K.6 SAS ST300MM0006 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-80.2

Config Notes

VMware Tools information can be found at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340 and http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.
Installation of VMware Tools is recommended to enhance performance and improve management of virtual machines. VMware Tools for SUSE® Linux Enterprise are available as an ISO (TAR Format with perl installer) bundled with vSphere or RPM Format tools can be downloaded from the following location: SLES 11 - http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/sles11.2/index.html. SLES 10 - http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/sles10/index.html
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html .
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory with SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 and 30 GB on x86 VMs.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 292464
	Checksum: 393bd3f3b935c41d800f1cc0f636da9f
	Driver Version: 11.4.0.0

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065
Website: www.Oracle.com

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