Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-R2x)

Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737-R2x)
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

18 Mar 2013
138996

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 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: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	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™ 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 E5-2690 2.90 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

Kdump (SLES12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=128M,low using YaST.
An updated SUSE kernel and Broadcom Emulex lpfc driver was used during testing and is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The kernel and driver was installed from the following Installation Kit: lightpulse_adapters_lpfc-sle12sp3-x86_64-4.0.iso. This driver package can be downloaded and installed during the SLES install. To obtain the kernel and driver installation information go to: https://drivers.suse.com/emulex/LightPulse_Adapters_lpfc/sle-12-sp3-x86_64/4.0/install-readme.html
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.

Referenced Bulletins
147542

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

Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Adapter OCe11102-N (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 113352
	Checksum: 7a4b5451e96a9d05150a062f759e6083

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

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

595159

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