 | Flex System x240 Compute Node (E5-2600 v2 / 8737-B4x)
Network Server IBM | 11 Nov 2013
140713 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| Windows Server 2012 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
The IBM® Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers outstanding performance for virtualization with new levels of CPU performance and memory capacity, and flexible configuration options. Now available with Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v2 processors, the x240 Compute Node is an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads, armed with advanced management capabilities that allow you to manage your physical and virtual IT resources from a single pane of glass.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 7 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: B2E135MUS - v1.40 (10/02/2013) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v2 2.60 GHz |
| RAM: | 384 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013 | Driver Size: 190720 | ||||||||
| Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 1.4.11 | |||||||||
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| IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 27-Aug-2013 | Driver Size: 149687 | ||||||||
| Checksum: cba1fd3384f034713046b2be73eec949 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 27-Aug-2013 | Driver Size: 270935 | ||||||||
| Checksum: e17731495b87636aaeb9d93f8a2d940a | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 14.100.00.00 | |||||||||
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