Compute Node - x480 X6 (Flex) - Type 7196 / E7-8800 v3

Compute Node - x480 X6 (Flex) - Type 7196 / E7-8800 v3
Network Server
Lenovo

31 Jan 2020
149068

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	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:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: N3E150DUS - v4.50 (02/18/2019)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host: 384 GB, multiple VMs: 88 GB each, single max VM: 350 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5-inch SFF HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-38.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 4-sockets by joining two x480 X6 with 4S scalability connector. Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two additional USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=316M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP5 guest. One of the Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
149011

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: 0a84338d028c855ca7c2eae94404eae4

2 Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 299872
	Checksum: 5ca13860869332a0dac7b5398edbf1de
	Driver Version: 12.0.0.0

2 IBM ServeRAID M1210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: a649376d8c32760e3d73ee1c44058ef7
	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-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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Compute Node - x480 X6 (Flex) - Type 7196 / E7-8800 v3 - Yes Bulletin 149068 | SUSE