System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600)

System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600)
Network Server
Lenovo

17 Jul 2015
143473

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

Product Description
A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the Lenovo System x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable performance and optimized efficiency for your business critical applications. Start with the basics and upgrade as your business changes without jeopardizing existing investments. Virtualizing the PC infrastructure into one server can provide access to a powerful server with abundant storage space, while significantly reducing IT costs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	PASS12
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: Y5E140AUS - v1.70 - (06/26/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2670 2.60 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST3300657SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVD DH40N , Serial ATA (SATA)
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

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 58775
	Checksum: 835923abad4eef8c134d8dc84cc84d86
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600) - Yes Bulletin 143473 | SUSE