 | Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917-F4x)
Network Server IBM | 20 Aug 2012
138173 |
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 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the IBM Flex System™ x440 Compute Node, is an Intel-processor based server optimized for high-end virtualization, mainstream database deployments, and memory-intensive high performance environments. The Flex System x440 Compute Node is a price-performance optimized 4-socket with a wide range of processors, memory, and I/O options to help you match system capabilities and cost to workloads without compromise. With a dense design, the Flex System x440 Compute Node can help reduce floor space used, and lower data center power and cooling costs.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | CNE115NUS-1.10 |
| CPU: | 4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4650 2.70 GHz |
| RAM: | 192 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X8 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 7.1.0-42.5 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 190688 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f | |||||||||
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| 2 IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 113352 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 7a4b5451e96a9d05150a062f759e6083 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 253048 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4a7cf02da81e903522d10faa86f90da3 | |||||||||
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