System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)

System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Acer, Inc.

16 Jul 2018
146775

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TBE134L - v2.60 (02/08/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697A v4 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 96 GB, multiple VM guests: 12 GB each, single max VM guest: 64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-77.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141541

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 33744b54c1e2edb1c64d9a288005bdc8

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 330656
	Checksum: 5bac2614c7277d6bad9a58637e1b38ec
	Driver Version: 3.137

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: e67ac5239c6b755dd0a1bffc9ee715f4
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-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:

Acer, Inc.
8F, No. 88, Sec. 1
Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsi Chih
Taipei Hsien 221
TAIWAN R.O.C.

569031

System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4) - Yes Bulletin 146775 | SUSE