ThinkSystem ST58 (7Y50, Xeon E-2100)

ThinkSystem ST58 (7Y50, Xeon E-2100)
Network Server
IBM

12 Aug 2020
149579

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 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:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: ITE107G (12/28/2019)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® E-2186G Processor 3.80 GHz
RAM:	Host: 32 GB, multiple VMs: 8 GB each, single max VM: 24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X1 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Intel UHD Graphics 630
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Non-Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Referenced Bulletins
144839

Adapters and Drivers


Intel UHD Graphics 630
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: i915.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 4688376
	Checksum: 365f5ad5329e00a4eadf9211836f72c7

Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 563104
	Checksum: 71627181422eeb396a7f812e54ac2ef3
	Driver Version: 3.2.6-k

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 496728
	Checksum: bbf398d0be838fc838a89ffa888d4513
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 91648
	Checksum: c3f471c2f7dbd65b4c98d5280e152139
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache 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

578615

ThinkSystem ST58 (7Y50, Xeon E-2100) - Yes Bulletin 149579 | SUSE