PRIMERGY® BX2580 M2

PRIMERGY® BX2580 M2
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Nov 2018
147238

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Optimized for a broad spectrum of workloads including virtualized workloads, consolidating applications as well as ERP and CRM applications, the PRIMERGY BX2580 M2 provides dense computing features with ultra-large memory capabilities. The server blade delivers improved performance for data centers and remote sites. Based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5- 2600 v4 product family, it offers up to 1536 GB of memory (24 DIMM slots) and up to two disk drives. The PRIMERGY BX2580 M2 offers exceptional levels of flexibility and I/O throughput to run the most demanding applications. The system is equipped with a quad port 1 Gigabit Ethernet, Data Center Bridging (DCB)-capable LAN on motherboard (LOM) that supports NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE and can in addition be configured with two mezzanine cards. The onboard converged network adapter can be partitioned in up to eight physical functions pert port that can be dynamically configured. The adapters serve as a common interface for both storage and IP traffic retaining familiar FC and networking software stacks, OS drivers, and management.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3321
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.16.0 (07/27/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2637 v4 3.50 GHz
RAM:	Host: 352 GB, Max VM: 330 GB, Multiple VMs: 75 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID EM400i , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST1000NX0313 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) adapters was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=4".

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Fujitsu DynamicLOM based on Emulex XE100 series (4x 1Gbit/s)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 292464
	Checksum: 393bd3f3b935c41d800f1cc0f636da9f
	Driver Version: 11.4.0.0

Fujitsu PRAID EM400i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-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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PRIMERGY® BX2580 M2 - Yes Bulletin 147238 | SUSE