ThinkSystem SR570 (7Y02, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR570 (7Y02, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Jul 2020
149469

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE151L - v2.51 (01/13/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 256 GB (DRAM), multiple VMs: 128 GB each, single max VM: 700 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Cheetah 15K.7 SAS ST3600057SS 600GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-26.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 5 w/hot swap drive.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=119M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the one of the SLES 12 guests. The IBM x3750 M4 Dual port 10 GB SFP+ Ethernet adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 23-May-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: 18ad9ce10064363de8b6e44066366c79

Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 23-May-2020	Driver Size: 222120
	Checksum: 5260218b1722fceac3d6ee61b14d53d6
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter

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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ThinkSystem SR570 (7Y02, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 149469 | SUSE