ThinkSystem SN550 Flex System (7X16)

ThinkSystem SN550 Flex System (7X16)
Network Server
Lenovo

22 Oct 2017
146087

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 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: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 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 4
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE111C - v1.00 (07/17/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 80 GB, single max VM guest: 64 GB, multiple VM guests: 14 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=184M,high crashkernel=132M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: HDD - single SATA drive, M.2 boot drive - two SSD configured as a RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (these parameters are required, but the specific values can be changed).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was 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 Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
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, system also has one built-in USB port.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 14-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 111736
	Checksum: e009fcc78a0d56d3b825d21b2093f17c
	Driver Version: 1.6.4

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 629239
	Checksum: 11dc012a6820631069019c6571691ad7

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 480431
	Checksum: 539a9b943f24800324b22ae1df4ab80c
	Driver Version: 1.6.27-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40evf.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 126999
	Checksum: eae900fd225ddfb08ed155005f27e4f0
	Driver Version: 1.6.27-k

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 72591
	Checksum: 3469a12a768d6bacc7a451a8ac50c8e7
	Driver Version: 3.0

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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