ThinkSystem SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Lenovo

25 Apr 2019
147947

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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:	Value Plus v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE136T - v2.10 (03/21/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 256 GB, multiple VM's: 32 GB each, single max VM: 192926 MB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 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 Seagate® ST1000NX0453 2.5 inch, 1TB, 12Gb/s, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: separate RAID 0 drives. Each VM guest was installed on its own individual drive.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the FV SLES 12 SP1 guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=174M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

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

2 Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 672856
	Checksum: ed0ba4d00cc73bffeeda57b9f3ec8b73
	Driver Version: 2.1.14-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40evf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 209528
	Checksum: f594350eaf4db42d480f5f19bfa6f7e8
	Driver Version: 3.0.0-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 SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 147947 | SUSE