PRIMERGY® RX2530 M5

PRIMERGY® RX2530 M5
Network Server
IBM

19 Aug 2019
148572

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for IBM Power

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2530 M5 is a rack server that provides high performance, expandability and energy efficiency in a 1U space saving housing. The PRIMERGY RX2530 M5 is ideal for virtualization, scale-out scenarios, and small databases as well as for high performance computing thanks to the high performance of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family CPUs. For more details, please refer to: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3483-B1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.11.0 (07/12/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8268 Processor 2.90 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Persistent Memory:	512 GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC 128GB Persistent Memory Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 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 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141249

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Fujitsu PRAID EP420i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	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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PRIMERGY® RX2530 M5 - Yes Bulletin 148572 | SUSE