NeXtScale nx360 M5 (5465)

NeXtScale nx360 M5 (5465)
Network Server
Fujitsu

14 Jan 2016
144018

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Lenovo NeXtScale System™ is the next generation of dense computing. It is an open, flexible, and simple data center solution for users of technical computing, grid deployments, analytics workloads, and large-scale cloud and virtualization infrastructures. The Lenovo NeXtScale n1200 enclosure and new Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5 server are designed to optimize density and performance within typical data center infrastructure limits. The 6U NeXtScale n1200 enclosure fits in a standard 19-inch rack and up to 12 nx360 M5 servers can be installed into the enclosure. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon v3 processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS B
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: THE108QUS - v1.30 (08/10/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 146 GB 10K SFF HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8063 x86-64 is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=4".
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).
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
140213

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5717 Gigabit Ethernet (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 257119
	Checksum: 68b956cb5c8bb96a07d2dd38941a72f7
	Driver Version: 3.137

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY
Website: http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/mission-critical/index.html

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