ThinkSystem SR158 (7Y55, Xeon E-2100)

ThinkSystem SR158 (7Y55, Xeon E-2100)
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Aug 2020
149600

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. 1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: ISE113H - v2.00 (12/27/2019)
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:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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), using the virtio driver for testing.
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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 327944
	Checksum: 66da90edfc8f437ccc9dd3572911dc80
	Driver Version: 3.137

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual 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 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

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Lenovo
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ThinkSystem SR158 (7Y55, Xeon E-2100) - Yes Bulletin 149600 | SUSE