 | Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903)
Network Server IBM | 06 Feb 2015
142692 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
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 | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| Windows Server 2012 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
The IBM® x880 X6 is based on the Intel® Xeon® E7 chip and is scalable from a two socket server to an eight socket server. Being scalable from two to eight sockets will provide a solution that can meet customer growth and changing compute requirements. Alongside the new Intel chip is the introduction of Flash technology, a disruptive technology delivering leadership performance. The new server is aimed at database, analytics, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and virtualization workloads. It is a truly scalable solution.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: N2E107NUS - v1.00 - (07/24/2014) |
| CPU: | 8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v2 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | 768 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 6 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16 16 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 98407 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63 | |||||||||
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| 5 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 256071 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9563c6d0ed104b22f6cb4532f23b69c6 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.136 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 167607 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f6db8044c75ad8b98c730803823301b5 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1 | |||||||||
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