ThinkSystem SR570 (7Y02, Xeon SP Gen 2)

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

21 Jul 2020
149470

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):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
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
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

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: 160 GB each, single max VM: 800 GB
Persistent Memory:	1TB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 256GB Modules
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

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.
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) and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

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:

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

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