ThinkServer RD550 (E5-2600 v4)

ThinkServer RD550 (E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Nov 2016
145044

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for 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:	RAVEN MB Rev 1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: PB1TS360 v3.60.0 (03/09/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, single max VM guest: 112 GB, multi VM 64-bit guests: 24 GB, 32-bit guest: 8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo Thinkserver RAID 510i AnyRAID , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-41.1

Config Notes

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 12 guests. The the Intel I350-T2 adapter was used during this testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (these amounts can be changed).
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 http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=159M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 105903
	Checksum: f7530011bfdf91300aa97f45b809a27f

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 03-Aug-2016	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: a890a4264376f3acea70cb9428484d87
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 628983
	Checksum: e570888218b6ae7b31f6ef9fef114710

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: b86d8a974ab8541cfab1956fcb34ae84
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 72895
	Checksum: 5b08507c88b85a77550961ae1f64049b
	Driver Version: 3.0

Lenovo Thinkserver RAID 510i AnyRAID
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 592300859f5d508ea6e0d5ac33d90503
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-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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