 | Flex System x240 Compute Node (8737)
Network Server IBM | 15 Dec 2014
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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 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
A building block for the PureFlex System family, the IBM Flex System™ x240 Compute Node is an Intel-processor based server optimized for virtualization, performance and highly scalable I/O designed to run a wide variety of workloads in your PureFlex System.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 6 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: B2E141AUS - v1.50 (05/08/2014) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 2.90 GHz |
| RAM: | 96 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
151186
Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 98407 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9eea03f7b2c7dfda0deec13b6e183a63 | |||||||||
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| IBM Embedded Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014 | Driver Size: 177583 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 52a51dd71872128b42399b512423c852 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 10.0.600.0s | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 353319 | ||||||||
| Checksum: ee3f5bb2061f4504ff7b55bde1d19981 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 18.100.00.00 | |||||||||
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