System x3950 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241)

System x3950 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241)
Network Server
Atos

16 Jul 2018
146876

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 server is an eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server that represents the sixth generation of the Lenovo Enterprise X-Architecture®. It delivers innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, availability, and serviceability features to enable optimal performance for mission-critical databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The x3950 X6 packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density, 8U rack-optimized lid-less package that helps to significantly reduce the space that is needed to support massive network computing operations and simplify servicing. The x3950 X6 supports up to eight Intel® Xeon® E7-8800 v4 high-performance processors and up to 12 TB of memory.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A9E143JUS - v4.30 (02/23/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, multiple VM guests: 20 GB each, single max VM guest: 104 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 2 Serial 14 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5 inch G3HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo 900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch G3HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-77.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLES12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=128M,low using YaST.
An updated SUSE kernel and Broadcom Emulex lpfc driver was used during testing and is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The kernel and driver was installed from the following Installation Kit: lightpulse_adapters_lpfc-sle12sp3-x86_64-4.0.iso. This driver package can be downloaded and installed during the SLES install. To obtain the kernel and driver installation information go to: https://drivers.suse.com/emulex/LightPulse_Adapters_lpfc/sle-12-sp3-x86_64/4.0/install-readme.html

Referenced Bulletins
147309

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 720904
	Checksum: c432fbe83bfe90c31968b619cc67e00e
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 135016
	Checksum: 144e0a9ed0547700e11c8754e3b6e9fc
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 330656
	Checksum: 5bac2614c7277d6bad9a58637e1b38ec
	Driver Version: 3.137

Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 02-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: 99ed785fd93461cfe24eeddc542a69dd
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

2 IBM ServeRAID M5210 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/

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