ThinkSystem SN850 Flex System (7X15)

ThinkSystem SN850 Flex System (7X15)
Network Server
Lenovo

28 Aug 2017
145828

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE111C - v1.00 (07/17/2017)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, single max VM guest: 96 GB, multiple VM guests: 32 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo 600GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5-inch G3HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-16.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=187M,high crashkernel=142M,low using YaST.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: single HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives, each configured as separate RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Flex System CN4054S 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96396
	Checksum: 23a48fe78ab81bfa9a5e7394ed0ee149

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 629124
	Checksum: 2bc2b21e876e6cc0db391574789f443b

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 14-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 111736
	Checksum: e009fcc78a0d56d3b825d21b2093f17c
	Driver Version: 1.6.4

Intel Flex System CN4054S 4-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 30-Jun-2017	Driver Size: 538844
	Checksum: f4447022203bd3c871a4eb1b993253d7
	Driver Version: 2.0.23

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 04-May-2017	Driver Size: 1979300
	Checksum: 9cbafe32d75ff4cb126c330295a27b1a
	Driver Version: 07.700.26.00

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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ThinkSystem SN850 Flex System (7X15) - Yes Bulletin 145828 | SUSE