PRIMERGY® CX2560 M5

PRIMERGY® CX2560 M5
Network Server
IBM

08 Apr 2019
147816

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX2560 M5 is designed to be a workhorse for data centers looking for new levels of efficiency and density in an outstanding compact form factor. The CX2560 M5 is well-suited for mainstream enterprise workloads, web serving, dedicated hosting, infrastructure virtualization as well as analytics thanks to the high performance of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family. For more details, please refer to: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	D3854-B1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: R1.1.1 (01/21/2019)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Gold 6240 Processor 2.60 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Fujitsu PRAID CP400i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	InnoDisk Corp. M.2 (S42) 3ME4 128GB , Serial ATA (SATA) Seagate® ST600MP0064 - Enterprise Performance 15K HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141518

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Fujitsu PRAID CP400i
	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

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef
	Driver Version: 3.0

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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PRIMERGY® CX2560 M5 - Yes Bulletin 147816 | SUSE