Express 5800/R120d-2M (E5-2650L)

Express 5800/R120d-2M (E5-2650L)
Network Server
IBM

12 Feb 2013
138890

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The NEC Express5800/R120d-2M, a scalable compact dual-socket 2U rack server built on the Intel® Xeon® E5-2650L processors, offers excellent performance, reliability, and energy savings. Its green technology enables the operation in temperatures of 40°C (104°F) to lower air conditioning costs for server rooms. The R120d-2M supports large memory capacity which is perfect for high data volume processing and future growth of your business.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	04S
BIOS/uEFI:	4.6.1010
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2650L 1.80 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi GST HUC106045CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Teac DV-28S-Y , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-42.5

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update slessp3-xen-201310-8479 is required and was installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.
Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141301

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® Millennium G200 SE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 223384
	Checksum: 76a70bfcec58d2d10d9514f1d2ec4a86

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 48216
	Checksum: d67bc19831738808520f9d881a3e9990

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9267-8i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 127144
	Checksum: 9064ff5d397905a2741116667bdcf91a

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:

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