Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917-F4x)

Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917-F4x)
Network Server
IBM

20 Aug 2012
138174

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
SLES Quarterly update: SLES 15 SP5 QU1 is required and was installed before YES Certification testing. The download is available from https://scc.suse.com/products/2465 . The iso image name is SLE-15-SP5-Full-x86_64-QU1-Media1.iso.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP5 FV guest. One port of the Intel Ethernet 1Gb 4-port Base-T I350-T4 for OCP 3.0 Adapter was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 23984
	Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4

2 IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Apr-2012	Driver Size: 130843
	Checksum: 9c38e3099255ee684d56a2895d9bad57

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 210624
	Checksum: 013ef213c47af73d6cb5238171bd5f40

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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