PRIMERGY® TX2540 M1

PRIMERGY® TX2540 M1
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

27 Oct 2014
142119

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The FUJITSU PRIMERGY TX2540 M1 is the perfect Tower Server for small and medium-sized companies (SMB) as well as branches. It supports up to two processors of the Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 family, thus combining affordable performance with balanced expandability. Its maximum 24 hard disks and 192 GB of RAM is ideal as a starting-point for server virtualization or as a database and communication server. Furthermore, optional redundancy secures stable and reliable operation. Thanks to its minimum operational noise, the server is ideal for offices, for example under the desk. Furthermore, the comprehensive Fujitsu ServerView® Suite provides support for administrators during server installation, deployment and administration. For more detailed information, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=8eed4a4d-9a82-4581-8cdc-96dae7c92adc

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	D3099-B
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: R1.12.0 (07/15/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	9 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X16 Serial 32-Bit PCI
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 1GB (D3116C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba MK1401GRRB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-94.2

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), using the virtio driver for testing.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141626

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 97007
	Checksum: ff7887102425f2bba08fd653c21d6ebb

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 20-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 523047
	Checksum: c2085f6f03b27b773f5c64c8b727eefb

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jul-2014	Driver Size: 124048
	Checksum: bed8e78793d30a8ec1b55a623d5647a3
	Driver Version: 1.6.3

2 Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: ec2951276b5b5f304b0b77895f8a0977
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

Fujitsu RAID Ctrl SAS 6G 1GB (D3116C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: dffa65a5656721e9da8e501ba6606dde
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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PRIMERGY® TX2540 M1 - Yes Bulletin 142119 | SUSE