PowerEdge MX840c

PowerEdge MX840c
Network Server
IBM

09 Sep 2020
149747

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A02
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.8.1 (06/29/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280L Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	1 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 7 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H730P MX , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST600MM0088 (600GB) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Dell Express Flash NVMe, 6.4 TB, 2.5 , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM 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 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
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. The system also has one internal USB port. System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: 0a84338d028c855ca7c2eae94404eae4

2 Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 785376

	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

Dell PERC H730P MX
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 309256

	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-rc1

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IBM
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PowerEdge MX840c - Yes Bulletin 149747 | SUSE