ThinkSystem ST550 (7X09, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem ST550 (7X09, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

17 May 2019
148062

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. 1.2
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: O0E136T - v2.10 (03/21/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 192 GB, multiple VM's: 40 GB each, single max VM: 176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DVD-RW DH16AFSH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-6.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 111736
	Checksum: bbfd21b91e3b5a27502a1496762920a1
	Driver Version: 1.6.4

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 692832
	Checksum: 81ff28d475b50f222e6919cb7b47f393
	Driver Version: 2.3.2-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40evf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 215264
	Checksum: f1913e6f171d95e2fd9955f6d936c565
	Driver Version: 3.2.2-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: 635faadb60d3bceab0350cc9d3794166
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 81416
	Checksum: d8b69510f19884bd09cff1e0911e538d
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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