ThinkServer RS140 (E3-1200 v3)

ThinkServer RS140 (E3-1200 v3)
Network Server
IBM

09 Nov 2016
145004

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

Product Description
For more information, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	IS8XM Rev 1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: FBKT89CUS (01/11/2016)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1275 v3 3.50 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 32 GB, multi VM guests: 6 GB, single max VM guest: 24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 8 USB Ports PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Intel HD Graphics P4600
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel DH82C226 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba MK3001GRRB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141557

Adapters and Drivers


Intel HD Graphics P4600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: i915.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 2112503
	Checksum: b732c4a49b056faa4ddabb2277745c32

Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: 0a7e32be8b34de8436ef4d819b353548
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 407911
	Checksum: c112c46deada0a84a4d2547ccf4cc2d2
	Driver Version: 3.2.6-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 6f0f2744d7b1f0f3a2ccf6ca5c182a50
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-rc1

Intel DH82C226 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 54375
	Checksum: 6d838a0a0e812cf42b58085c2c474820
	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 14063
	Checksum: c4987ce6833b546ff123d9e9f7b3db73
	Driver Version: 0.2.15

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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