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 | VMware ESXi 6.5
Network Server
Lenovo | 20 Sep 2018
147079 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
4
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
VMware ESXi is a complete, scalable and robust virtualization platform. Designed to reduce capital and operation costs. Maximize IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, SUSE® Linux Enterprise OS and hardware.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Virtual Machine |
Mother Board Revision: | Intel 440 BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: VMW71.00V.0.B64.1605280101 (05/28/2016) |
CPU: | 8 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz |
RAM: | Host Platform: 6 TB, 64-bit VM Guests: 1500 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit |
Ports and Bus Types: | Serial Parallel Port 6 32-Bit PCI PCI-ISA PCI Express X8 |
Video Adapter: | VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
Host Bus Adapter: | VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA) VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter
, SCSI VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | 2 VMware®
Virtual Hard Disk rev:1.0 (SCSI)
, SCSI VMware®
Virtual disk rev:1.0 (IDE)
, IDE |
CD/DVD: | VMware®
VMware SATA CD00
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2 |
Config Notes
- 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: HDD two disks configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 1 device.
- Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle11sp4-x86_64-2.1.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-11-sp4-x86_64/2.1/install-readme.html.
- 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), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
- Kdump (SLE11SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M-:256M using YaST.
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Referenced Bulletins
146172
Adapters and Drivers
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VMware®
VMware SVGA II |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: vmwgfx.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 609096 |
| Checksum: 60e2a2ca02d7b0cdc5dd3924751ee6a4 |
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VMware®
VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 114888 |
| Checksum: 4db86595f67b59810ae0fe450d2c40cb |
| Driver Version: 1.4.a.0-k |
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VMware®
VMware SATA AHCI Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 79168 |
| Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef |
| Driver Version: 3.0 |
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VMware®
Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 52048 |
| Checksum: ec2d918941f19487fb24f5361f007d48 |
| Driver Version: 1.0.7.0-k |
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VMware®
Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_generic.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 15320 |
| Checksum: 5597f80a2e7314f8951d09c6aa585ec2 |
| Driver Version: 0.2.15 |
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| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| Driver Date: 31-May-2018 | Driver Size: 58304 |
| Checksum: 98c8b156360e831c60a4f6b092658e79 |
| Driver Version: 2.13 |
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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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