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 | Lenovo System x3750 M4 (8753/E5-4600 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo | 17 Dec 2015
143934 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
With a dense 2U design, the Lenovo® System x3750 M4 provides advanced features and capabilities. These include support for up to four sockets and 48 DIMMs, mix and match internal storage, up to 16 HDDs or 32 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSDs), six hot-swap, dual-rotor fans and two power supplies. A Mezzanine LOM socket provides a choice of 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) or 10 GbE networking options. Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnostics proactively monitor the system’s sub-components and provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors and memory.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | PASS2 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A5E103JUS - v1.10 - (04/06/2015) |
CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-4657L v2 2.40 GHz |
RAM: | 128 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16 |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
BD82C602 PCH
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM
ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
300GB 10K SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | IBM
81Y3672 SATA DEVICE
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.5.0-17.1 |
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: RAID 0
- UEFI Configuration: The Processor Performance State (p-state) setting in UEFI was changed from the default Enabled to Disabled. ( F1 Setup --> System Settings --> Processors )
- 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).
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=24G dom0_max_vcpus=12".
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Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015 | Driver Size: 98639 |
| Checksum: 213728ad1d23cc3234baba627dc97723 |
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Broadcom®
NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2x.ko |
| Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015 | Driver Size: 1078471 |
| Checksum: 41829d5f19e911e702fbbb9fc60d3b3e |
| Driver Version: 1.710.51-0 |
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Intel
BD82C602 PCH |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015 | Driver Size: 64511 |
| Checksum: 757d9be42db923fa910af42d1363df49 |
| Driver Version: 3.0 |
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IBM
ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015 | Driver Size: 190951 |
| Checksum: 6b164e0300bd4e040478ee0f6430d7ed |
| Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1 |
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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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