Lenovo Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7196)

Lenovo Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7196)
Network Server
Lenovo

27 May 2015
143208

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Node, machine type 7196, is a high-performance scalable compute node that is designed to take on the most demanding workloads. The performance, flexibility, and resiliency features enable the X6 to run mission-critical workloads, such as key business applications, database, analytics, and large virtual machine deployments. The X6 Compute Node family is composed of the x880 X6 and x480 X6. Each compute node contains two Intel Xeon E7 processors. The x880 X6 uses E7-8800 v3 processors and supports joining two or four x880 compute nodes to form a single 8-socket server with 192 DIMM slots. The x480 uses E7-4800 v3 processors and supports joining two x480 compute nodes to form a single 4-socket server with 96 DIMM slots.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: N3E122PUS - v1.00 - (02/23/2015)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v3 2.10 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 16 PCI Express X8 8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 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

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM 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).
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Virtualization Drivers: Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) drivers are recommended by SUSE and were loaded and used during this testing. For more information see https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_virt/book_virt.html#kvm.vfio

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

2 Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 177151
	Checksum: 08494690e01e79efe119f4f1732678f7
	Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s

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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