Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v3)

Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node (9532/E5-2600 v3)
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Nov 2016
145011

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo Flex System x240 M5 Compute Node is a high-performance server that offers enhanced security, efficiency, and reliability features to handle business-critical workloads. The blade server incorporates up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors. Suggested uses: database, virtualization, enterprise applications, collaboration and email, streaming media, Web, HPC, and cloud applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: C4E121WUS - v2.01 (02/19/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v3 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 168 GB, multi VM 64-bit guests: 32 GB and 32-bit guest: 16 GB, single max VM guest: 160 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo DC P3600 SSD 400GB [2.5" SFF] , NVMe IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

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: 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. The system also has one internal USB port.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the integrated Lenovo CN4052 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 207607
	Checksum: dddd700f6ebe18956b8a6576229e9bd0
	Driver Version: 11.0.0.0

Intel Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 55975
	Checksum: e7a2a0177f610977a1feaf50e555ac2f
	Driver Version: 1.0

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 43d97f95db88b476471065c1667d0589
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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