ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70)

ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70)
Network Server
Lenovo

16 Jul 2018
146917

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	L154TR2 Electron Planar MB 16006-1C 548.02911.001C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE121Q - v1.30 (02/07/2018)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, multiple VM guests: 20 GB each, single max VM guest: 96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-80.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSD configured as RAID 0. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=231M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
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-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the internal X550-T2 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146837

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 720904
	Checksum: afb7d404d70b31b1245d3f7fe21727f6
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 135016
	Checksum: 03f49f1c60a6f0d4c936e1644e66c41c
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70) - Yes Bulletin 146917 | SUSE