ThinkSystem SD530 (7X21, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SD530 (7X21, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Lenovo

20 May 2019
148081

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	16024-1D 548.02A62.001D
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE135V - v2.11 (04/19/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8270 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host: 128 GB, multiple VM's: 20 GB each, single max VM: 112 GB
Persistent Memory:	512 GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 128GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i Dense Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 600GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-6.1

Config Notes

768 CPUs require ESXi 7.0 U1 or higher update level.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP2 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP2 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.

Referenced Bulletins
150101

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 10GBASE-T
	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 530-8i Dense 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

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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