PRIMERGY® BX924 S4

PRIMERGY® BX924 S4
Network Server
IBM

28 Jan 2014
141116

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY BX924 S4 sets new standards in the area of versatility and scalability of dual-socket server blades and thus reinforces its position as a perfect high-end server ideal suited for extensive virtualization and consolidation projects as well as a variety of workloads including demanding high performance computing applications. Meeting a wide range of tomorrow’s IT demands while achieving a fast return-oninvestment today, this server blade delivers once again a leap forward in performance and modularity even compared to the previous recordbreaking generation. Two CPUs of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v2 product family,24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1,024 GB of DDR3 memory deliver significantly more performance in same power envelope and enable to run significantly more virtual machines per blade compared to previous generations. The integrated 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Universal Converged Network Adapter provides high networking bandwidth and improves flexibility with the ability to partition the bandwidth, making it ideal to suit the needs of individual applications. While virtualization allows consolidating of IT resources, it often leads to increased expenses for server administration. Thus the PRIMERGY BX924 S4 delivers state-of-the-art management capabilities with the new integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC S4) that offers the next generation of remote management functionality. The result is the ability to execute tasks faster, no matter whether the server is located in the server-room next door or in another part of the world. For more detailed information please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=94ad5e5b-e23c-445a-8bc8-792313ebd7e4

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3143
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy Boot: R1.1.0 (08/28/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2695 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID Software RAID , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST200FM0002 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD
UEFI Configuration: Per core CPU state (p-state) setting in UEFI was changed from the default Enabled to Disabled. ( F1 Setup --> System Settings --> Processors )
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=32G dom0_max_vcpus=8".

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Adapter OCe11102-N (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 149687
	Checksum: ccd5e20c73b18cd30b5f486e87e79186
	Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s

LSI Logic MegaRAID Software RAID
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megasr.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 11127764
	Checksum: f6475ed22dee5771f5dedd56289815d2
	Driver Version: 15.02.2013.0425

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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