ThinkSystem SR850P (7D2G, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR850P (7D2G, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Lenovo

24 Nov 2020
150013

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

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 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 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: 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:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	Lily Rogue 19140-SA 548.02930.00SA
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE163L - v2.80 (10/23/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260M Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host: 1.5 TB (DRAM), multiple VMs: 1.5 TB each, single max VM: 2 TB
Persistent Memory:	8TB, 16 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 512GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 5 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:	4 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 4 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch HUSMM32 400GB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: SSD RAID 10, HDD RAID 5. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=128G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in Memory Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 SP2 FV guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 SP5 kernel, xen and libvirt maintenance updates are required and were installed during certification testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2020	Driver Size: 103840
	Checksum: 9adc95df966f7f29570d0007b6f8cb74

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 140704
	Checksum: e2824ae4216b6c516c7f23e96937ac40

Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2020	Driver Size: 225608
	Checksum: a7e50ef2ecaedcfceb2c63007f1b8689
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2020	Driver Size: 786360
	Checksum: de23a8de200c142dd8663e74cd789801
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Oct-2020	Driver Size: 308632
	Checksum: 9af094b471cc6cb373b869e352c9ab7a
	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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ThinkSystem SR850P (7D2G, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 150013 | SUSE