Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-N2x)

Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-N2x)
Network Server
IBM

10 May 2012
137612

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 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:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2643 3.30 GHz
RAM:	98 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 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

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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
139618

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 23656
	Checksum: cf285f072181da40932b9a50726013b6

Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Adapter OCe11102-N (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 85456
	Checksum: e5126884f758f90cc6dc0a87d5bd703f

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 216504
	Checksum: 4f4d893c3e89e8f971c1ed835b470a5c

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:

IBM
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559399

Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-N2x) - Yes Bulletin 137612 | SUSE