ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

20 May 2019
148114

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	L154TR2 Electron Planar MB 16006-1C 548.02911.001C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE135V - v2.11 (04/19/2019)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8270 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Persistent Memory:	512 GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 128GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
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 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-6.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal 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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.

Referenced Bulletins
141511

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

Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 720904
	Checksum: afb7d404d70b31b1245d3f7fe21727f6
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i Dense 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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

564446

ThinkSystem SR860 (7X70, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 148114 | SUSE