 | Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-G2x)
Network Server IBM | 10 May 2012
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the IBM Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is an Intel-processor based server optimized for virtualization, performance and highly scalable I/O designed to run a wide variety of workloads in your PureFlex System.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | B2E111QUS-1.00 |
| CPU: | 4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz |
| RAM: | 98 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 97711 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886 | |||||||||
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| Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ixgbe.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 448271 | ||||||||
| Checksum: be3032e53ff500cabb90c0c73f5c16c9 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.19.1-k | |||||||||
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| Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 09-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 255327 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 93319c81002c211d917ab344aaeb9fc1 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.136 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 168407 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 1491d21129f10d37bc159b9a6f36a1cc | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1 | |||||||||
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