IBM Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903/E7-8800 v2)

IBM Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903/E7-8800 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo

02 Feb 2017
145384

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® 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:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: N2E107NUS - v1.00 (07/24/2014)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v2 2.30 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 64 GB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 10 GB, 32-bit guest: 8 GB, single max VM guest: 56 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 16 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	4 IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

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.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=163M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
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.

Adapters and Drivers


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

4 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

4 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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IBM Flex System x880 X6 Compute Node (7903/E7-8800 v2) - Yes Bulletin 145384 | SUSE