ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

08 Jul 2019
148393

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE136X - v2.13 (05/15/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host: 384 GB, multiple VMs: 64 GB each, single max VM: 336 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
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)
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 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), using the virtio driver for testing.
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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 102080
	Checksum: 07cad92cf9d842281e5e704f469b323c

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 760616
	Checksum: 7266d27d397e793c77e347c30a4fe464
	Driver Version: 2.7.6-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 219656
	Checksum: 15ffaed855b5c758bb231ce7a022e3eb
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 496992
	Checksum: 1bbdfabf69501dd0a3c43a5e18035bd4
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 296104
	Checksum: 0c021a1293826b2f98a1f58789f0ebda
	Driver Version: 07.707.50.00-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:

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

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