Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903)

Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903)
Network Server
Lenovo

14 Jan 2016
144029

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The Lenovo 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:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 6 USB Ports 16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
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 7.5.0-20.4

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
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=256M for kdump to function correctly.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 257119
	Checksum: 68b956cb5c8bb96a07d2dd38941a72f7
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM ServeRAID M1210e 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

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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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