ThinkSystem SN550 (7X16, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SN550 (7X16, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Fujitsu

11 Aug 2021
150705

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 4
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE167I - v2.90 (01/21/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260L Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host: 384 GB (DRAM), multiple VMs: SLES 1 TB each - Windows 700 GB, single max VM: 2 TB
Persistent Memory:	6TB, 12 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 512GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , 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 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=32G dom0_max_vcpus=16".

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 for 10GbE SFP+ (Quad-Port)
	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

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Strasse 8
München 80807
GERMANY

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ThinkSystem SN550 (7X16, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 150705 | SUSE