NeXtScale nx360 M5 DWC BDW Compute Node (5467/E5-2600 v4)

NeXtScale nx360 M5 DWC BDW Compute Node (5467/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
IBM

16 Jul 2018
146926

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
Lenovo NeXtScale System™ is the next generation of dense computing. It is an open, flexible, and simple data center solution for users of technical computing, grid deployments, analytics workloads, and large-scale cloud and virtualization infrastructures. The Lenovo NeXtScale n1200 enclosure and new Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5 server are designed to optimize density and performance within typical data center infrastructure limits. The 6U NeXtScale n1200 enclosure fits in a standard 19-inch rack and up to 12 nx360 M5 servers can be installed into the enclosure. With more computing power per watt and the Intel Xeon v4 processor, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 6
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: THE134J - v2.60 (02/07/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 2.30 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 64 GB, multiple VM guests: 12 GB each, single max VM guest: 48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Savvio® (ST9146853SS) 15K.3 6-Gbps 146-GB Hard Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-74.2

Config Notes

VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
VMware recommends to install deployPkg with open-vm-tools if creating a Template http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075048
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP1 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 12 SP1 x86-64 guest.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP1 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.
Requires ESXi 5.1 U3 or higher update level.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 33744b54c1e2edb1c64d9a288005bdc8

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5717 Gigabit Ethernet (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 330656
	Checksum: 5bac2614c7277d6bad9a58637e1b38ec
	Driver Version: 3.137

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: e67ac5239c6b755dd0a1bffc9ee715f4
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

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:

IBM
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