Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v3)

Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v3)
Network Server
Sugon Information Industry Co., ltd.

12 Dec 2018
147387

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
For more information about this system, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C4E137C - v2.80 (08/15/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v3 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host: 168 GB, multiple VMs: 30 GB each, single max VM: 148 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 8.2.0-15.2

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=208M,high crashkernel=152M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 1 device.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 954257f3b5e5f8324936b32f7328b2e3

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 300376
	Checksum: 6fd9397d08ef050797fb2544edf38496
	Driver Version: 12.0.0.0

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: c63247fe84b50d4a45142fceaa6f21d4
	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:

Sugon Information Industry Co., ltd.
Sugon Buliding, No.36 Zhongguancun Software Prak, No.8 Dongbeiwang West Road, Haidian District, Beijing
BeiJing 100094
CHINA
Voice: 8610-56308000
Toll Free: 8610-56308000
Fax: 8610-56308222
Website: www.sugon.com

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