Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917/E5-4600 v2)

Flex System x440 Compute Node (7917/E5-4600 v2)
Network Server
IBM

22 Dec 2016
145217

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
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: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
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
A building block for the Lenovo PureFlex System family, the Lenovo Flex System™ x440 Compute Node is a four-socket Intel® Xeon® processor-based server optimized for high-end virtualization, mainstream database deployments, and memory-intensive high performance environments. It is price-performance optimized with a wide range of processors, memory, and I/O options to help you match system capabilities and cost to workloads without compromise. With a dense design, the Flex System x440 Compute Node can help reduce floor space used, and lower data center power and cooling costs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 4
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: CGE107CUSv - v1.30 (12/08/2015)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4657L v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 192 GB, multiple VM 64-bit guests: 32 GB, 32-bit guest: 8 GB, single max VM guest: 176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 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: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" are used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.11.17.2166.iso" and the driver package "htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.11.17.2166_3.0.76_0.11-1.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm". To obtain DUD and the driver package log onto : https://portal.hds.com. The Hitachi customer has to be a member of "HDS support portal" to access the driver for download. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation. To install SLES to the SAN storage, refer to the document "Hitachi Gigabit Fibre Channel Adapter Users Guide(SLES Driver Edition)" on https://portal.hds.com
Emulex BladeEngine-3 Ethernet driver used during testing is not SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the following driver package: elx-be2net-dd-sles11-10.0.800.0-1.tar.gz. This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.emulex.com/downloads/emulex/drivers/linux/sles-11/drivers/

Adapters and Drivers


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

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5718 Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 249959
	Checksum: 1f949a3ea6e1f0146eed254abd2eda5c
	Driver Version: 3.137

LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 393319
	Checksum: 2beef70a506d8b50f61937d4eef211af
	Driver Version: 12.100.00.00

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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