System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600)

System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600)
Network Server
IBM

17 Jul 2015
143434

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The right choice when compromise is not an option, the Lenovo System x3550 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. This compact rack server offers an energy-smart, affordable and easy-to-use solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt, support for the Intel® Xeon® E5 processor and advanced memory support, the x3550 M4 offers balanced performance and density.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS12
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: D7E142AUS - v1.71- (07/30/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch Slim-HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-27.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141274

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: 280cf5049209e38d9569d1edaf6d85c6
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 63671
	Checksum: 52ffc40ec9b147eae7137893bd4578e1
	Driver Version: 2.0.2-k

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 175903
	Checksum: 02182393085b12ea0c8db34857f15f72
	Driver Version: 06.806.08.00-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:

IBM
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