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

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

12 Oct 2017
146040

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

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. The processors feature advanced multi-core and use new lightning-fast Lenovo TruDDR4 memory, which runs at speeds up to 2400 MHz. 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: C4E129I - v2.40 (03/28/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 168 GB, single max VM guest: 128 GB, multiple VM guests: 32 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® Savvio® 10K.6 SAS ST300MM0006 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

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. The system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: single disk JBOD. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated CN4052 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=219M,high crashkernel=162M,low using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 214975
	Checksum: 9723522b5a37f2eec4d33a5b0ccd9075
	Driver Version: 11.1.0.0

IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 236751
	Checksum: c96d2df516f3a67f3960bb982a2a0b3d
	Driver Version: 07.701.17.00-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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