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 | PRIMERGY® RX2540 M5
Network Server
Dell Incorporated | 20 Jun 2019
148216 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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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Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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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 via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel® X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200e |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| | Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018 | Driver Size: 106720 |
| | Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a |
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| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018 | Driver Size: 111736 |
| | Checksum: bbfd21b91e3b5a27502a1496762920a1 |
| | Driver Version: 1.6.4 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin.
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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
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