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| Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7196/E7-8800 v3)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 12 Dec 2018
147362 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| 2
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2016 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Node, machine type 7196, is a high-performance scalable compute node that is designed to take on the most demanding workloads. The performance, flexibility, and resiliency features enable the X6 to run mission-critical workloads, such as key business applications, database, analytics, and large virtual machine deployments.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Compute Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: N3E148DUS - v4.40 (09/05/2018) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | Host: 768 GB, multiple VM's: 128 GB each, single max VM: 736 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 8 PCI Express X16
16 PCI Express X8
4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | 4 IBM
ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.4 |
Config Notes
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200eR2 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018 | Driver Size: 106720 |
| | Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a |
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| 4 Lenovo
Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| | Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018 | Driver Size: 300376 |
| | Checksum: 5a1c93886edf0a5a575671367bd20c25 |
| | Driver Version: 12.0.0.0 |
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| 4 IBM
ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018 | Driver Size: 293840 |
| | Checksum: 635faadb60d3bceab0350cc9d3794166 |
| | Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1 |
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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:
VMware, Inc.
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