RS720-E9-RS12-E

RS720-E9-RS12-E
Network Server
IBM

15 Oct 2019
148736

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
High Performance 2U cache server with 24 DIMMs and 12 drive bays

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 5102 (02/11/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba AL15SEB09EQ - 2.5-inch Enterprise Performance SAS HDD 900GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG DVDRAM GTC0N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP2 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe)
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
139169

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 130840
	Checksum: 91f3d373f3311797e9becd7cb5292262

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (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

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
	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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288
	Checksum: cda6f840da0973af652a5672382ed473
	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
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RS720-E9-RS12-E - Yes Bulletin 148736 | SUSE