 | IBM Flex System x480 X6 Compute Node (7903/E7-8800 v2)
Network Server IBM | 05 Feb 2017
145405 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
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® x480 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: | 4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v2 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | Host platform: 32 GB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 5 GB, 32-bit guest: 4 GB, single max VM guest: 28 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 PCI Express X16 8 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | 2 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 7.6.0-44.1 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR2 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016 | Driver Size: 95983 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 2 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 | |||||||||
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