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| ThinkSystem SN550 (7X16, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM | 09 Dec 2019
148876 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
Windows Server 2019 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 15 |
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: | PASS 4 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: IVE147M - v2.41 (10/31/2019) |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Platinum 8260L Processor 2.40 GHz |
RAM: | Host DRAM: 256 GB, multiple VMs: 224 GB each, single max VM: 900 GB |
Persistent Memory: | 1TB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 256GB Modules |
Ports and Bus Types: | USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 |
Video Adapter: | Matrox Graphics Inc.
G200 SE A (PCI) |
Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
C624 Chipset
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Hard Disk Drive: | Lenovo
ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD
, Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo
ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 8.4.0-31.4 |
Config Notes
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- Hard disk configuration: JBOD
- 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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- Maintenance updates: Xen 8479 (bnc#836239) and Linux Kernel 9329 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16"
- System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
- 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
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Referenced Bulletins
141694
Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox Graphics Inc.
G200 SE A (PCI) |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 18-Oct-2019 | Driver Size: 140704 |
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| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 103832 |
| Checksum: 0a84338d028c855ca7c2eae94404eae4 |
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Intel
Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (Quad-Port) |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: iavf.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 225600 |
| Checksum: 9d55f4cf07890c56b0f660f127c7cc5d |
| Driver Version: 3.2.3-k |
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Intel
C624 Chipset |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019 | Driver Size: 81304 |
| Checksum: a9778a47d1b0920ec81c485d11320d39 |
| Driver Version: 3.0 |
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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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