PRIMERGY® RX2540 M1

PRIMERGY® RX2540 M1
Network Server
IBM

01 Apr 2015
143002

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 sets higher standards for usability, scalability and cost-efficiency. It is a 2U dual-socket rack server ideal for running enterprise applications, collaboration and messaging workloads as well as traditional databases. Plus, it substantially simplifies carrying out infrastructure-related tasks like server virtualization and consolidation. As one of the key innovations, versatile performance is guaranteed by a new generation of processors. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 can be equipped with two of the latest Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processors with up to 36 cores. Along with new DDR4 memory technology it boosts application performance to be able to cope with the increasing data growth and shortens time to business results. The modular design of the server offers high storage density, DynamicLoM technology, up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots. The new DynamicLoM technology offers users the ability to individually adapt the current server network as well as the ability to change and thus meet future requirements without giving the server infrastructure a general overhaul. The PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 comes with 2 redundant hot-plug power supply units, offering up to 96% energy efficiency. The Cool-safe® Advanced Thermal Design allows for operation in ambient temperatures of up to 40 °C/104 °F. Both these features in line help to reduce operational expenses. For more detailed information, please refer to the data sheet at: http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=84433438-7da7-4a24-b388-564f4e844fc9

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	D3289
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: R1.17.0 (02/18/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v3 2.60 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	10 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID EP400i (D3216) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Western Digital WD2001FYYG , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST SU-208FB , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Install: System installed using the internal 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 the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
UEFI boot was enabled by setting "Launch Storage OpROM" to "UEFI Driver" in the Setup Utility -> System Settings -> Device and I/O Ports.

Referenced Bulletins
141403

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga
	Driver Date: 29-May-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Fujitsu DynamicLOM based on Emulex XE100 series (4x 1Gbit/s)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Dec-2014	Driver Size: 191976
	Checksum: 655cbe4e4516f11c0ff24060316c8e1c
	Driver Version: 10.2.405.22

Fujitsu PRAID EP400i (D3216)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 473c4648eb91631c32be9d18fb2e85ad
	Driver Version: 3.0

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/

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