PowerEdge R740xd

PowerEdge R740xd
Network Server
Lenovo

26 Jun 2019
148318

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A01
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.2.10 (05/15/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280L Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
Persistent Memory:	6TB, 12 Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory 512 GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 6 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PERC H740P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST1000NX0453 2.5 inch, 1TB, 12Gb/s, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports (system also has one integrated USB port). System was scaled up to 4-sockets by joining two x480 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=6G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=163M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
145383

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel I350c rNDC GbE 4 port
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 489024
	Checksum: d5232654a1debc91e634dcdcdf5d1fc8
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 4f7c7f0d69f4ac743ca67d4e22b5c8ef
	Driver Version: 3.0

Dell PERC H740P Mini
	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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PowerEdge R740xd - Yes Bulletin 148318 | SUSE