System x3850 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241)

System x3850 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241)
Network Server
Lenovo

20 Jun 2016
144707

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
For more information,please visit https://lenovopress.com/tips1250-system-x3850-x6-6241.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A9E131VUS - v3.00 (05/16/2016)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 7 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5 inch G3HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo 900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch G3HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-39.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=212M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
Maintenance update: Update SUSE Linux Enterprise Server grub2 (624) and xen (508) were applied to the host during certification testing. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=10".
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters were used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
144678

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 98639
	Checksum: ff1bbc7b82a873445970305851e40d18

Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 454303
	Checksum: 5acf68bc0bd3757fba4a9d6a5e868792
	Driver Version: 4.0.1-k

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 256879
	Checksum: 9479938fb24deadc6324fca79e363191
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 190951
	Checksum: bad7d50a2e1f626fcbc21095b9b08625
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-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 x3850 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241) - Yes Bulletin 144707 | SUSE