PRIMERGY® RX2540 M5

PRIMERGY® RX2540 M5
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

20 Jun 2019
148214

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

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 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M5 sets high standards for usability, scalability and cost efficiency. It is a 2U dual-socket rack server ideal for running enterprise applications, collaboration and messaging workloads as well as traditional databases. In addition, it simplifies carrying out infrastructure-related tasks such as server virtualization and consolidation. As one of the key innovations, versatile performance is guaranteed by a new generation of processors. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M5 can be equipped with two of the Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family CPUs. Along with new DDR4 memory technology it boosts application performance so that it copes with the increasing data growth and to shorten time to business results. The modular design of the server offers excellent expandability with up to 28 disk drives, high storage density, up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots. A variety of onboard DynamicLoM options, plus its dual-port embedded LAN meet future requirements, cost-optimized. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M5 comes with two redundant hot-plug power supply units, offering up to 96% energy efficiency. The Cool-safe® Advanced Thermal Design allows operation in ambient temperatures of up to 45 °C/104 °F. Having both these features helps to reduce operational expenses. For more detailed information, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=3ac53e9b-a567-4c9b-8bc1-be7f5e186e0b

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3384-B1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R0.92.0 (01/31/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8268 Processor 2.90 GHz
RAM:	Host: 48 GB, Multiple VMs: 12 GB, Max VM: 42 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID EP420i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST600MP0064 - Enterprise Performance 15K HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
SUSE SolidDriver Compliant: The be2net network driver used during testing was installed from a kmp rpm contained on the following driver update disk (DUD): elx-be2net_10.0.727.54-be2iscsi_10.0.727.62-lpfc_10.0.727.20-sles11sp3-1.iso, kmp rpm file name: elx-be2net-kmp-xen-10.0.727.54_3.0.76_0.11-1.1.x86_64.rpm. This kmp rpm should be downloaded and installed after the SLES Xen install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Emulex/sle11sp3/common/DUD/dud_lpfc_10.0.727.20_be2net_10.0.727.54_be2iscsi_10.0.727.62/ and extract from the iso image.
Kdump: Crash kernel dump and capture does not function properly on this system due to the Emulex network adapter, and is therefore not supported.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141248

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 111736
	Checksum: bbfd21b91e3b5a27502a1496762920a1
	Driver Version: 1.6.4

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 496416
	Checksum: 9180fee4626d09eb47ceeb4937827299
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Fujitsu PRAID EP420i
	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

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

569011

PRIMERGY® RX2540 M5 - Yes Bulletin 148214 | SUSE