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

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

05 Feb 2017
145402

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 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 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
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
A building block for the 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. The Flex System x440 Compute Node is a price-performance optimized 4-socket 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: CNE149BUS - v1.70 (11/18/2015)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4650 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 192 GB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 32 GB each, 32-bit VM guest: 8 GB, single max VM guest: 176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 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 7.6.0-50.1

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Emulex Integrated BE3 Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Referenced Bulletins
139151

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 IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 207607
	Checksum: dddd700f6ebe18956b8a6576229e9bd0
	Driver Version: 11.0.0.0

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
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