ThinkSystem ST558 (7Y15, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem ST558 (7Y15, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

26 Jul 2021
150665

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 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
Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.2
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: O0E168J - v2.90 (01/26/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 192 GB, multiple VMs: 32 GB each, single max VM: 150 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DVD-RW DH16AFSH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Referenced Bulletins
140237

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Apr-2021	Driver Size: 107144
	Checksum: b3854d6303e2efc922b10b2c6c6efe7c

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 20-Feb-2021	Driver Size: 21788696
	Checksum: 38c4a31963eaa9f3b48ec115742967a5

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 175616
	Checksum: 0b3c528d2721724cb5e68abc90bf65ec

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 11328
	Checksum: 9a8af08a34ab679384cd355d8590de4c

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 68420
	Checksum: cdc7bfa63964ba2caa52b643881b6a11

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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ThinkSystem ST558 (7Y15, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 150665 | SUSE