IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737)

IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737)
Network Server
Lenovo

04 Nov 2014
142258

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the Lenovo 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:	PASS 6
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: B2E141AUS - v1.50 (05/08/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz
RAM:	96 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:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-100.1

Config Notes

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. The system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed using an PXE netowork boot; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: two HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives configured each as separate RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886

IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 19ae3e3a11c85c0940f0fde08afdedff
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 294527
	Checksum: f8d6a739b33533aa06bc1f7ea2aedc4f
	Driver Version: 18.100.00.00

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737) - Yes Bulletin 142258 | SUSE