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

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

12 Dec 2018
147341

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12	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 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A9E147GUS - v4.50 (08/22/2018)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 128 GB, multiple sles guests: 20 GB each, Windows: 16 GB, single max guest: 84 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 14 USB Ports 2 Serial
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 8.2.0-12.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: two separate RAID 0 devices. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (parameters are required, values can be changed).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 954257f3b5e5f8324936b32f7328b2e3

Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 496416
	Checksum: 2c90b0a82b5c309d3e48d9b4484120f3
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 138824
	Checksum: 4a1e5e6362fa3a75567486cbd8c32119
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 723688
	Checksum: 8798a7b94da99cdb7e3fd5a69928bf46
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 334072
	Checksum: b114458c903c2201d2123201309cceaf
	Driver Version: 3.137

2 IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: c63247fe84b50d4a45142fceaa6f21d4
	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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