VxFlex Ready Node R740xd

VxFlex Ready Node R740xd
Network Server
IBM

06 Nov 2019
148785

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.2.61 (07/28/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280L Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Persistent Memory:	64 GB, 4 Dell EMC NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory 16 GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H330 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Dell BOSS , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Toshiba SSD, SAS, 960GB (PX05SVB096Y) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel SSD M.2, 240GB, SATA (SSDSCKJB240G7R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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. An added network adapter,Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
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)
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
139867

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a

Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx EN Dual-Port Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 1170800
	Checksum: 9df4a5b090868fd66a13a389c1e5f136
	Driver Version: 5.0-0

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H330
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt3sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 536456
	Checksum: 43e5ac209ddf95d908c0937e0f76b0a5
	Driver Version: 26.100.00.00

Dell BOSS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 81416
	Checksum: d8b69510f19884bd09cff1e0911e538d
	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:
www.ibm.com

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