ThinkSystem SR950 (7X12, Xeon SP Gen 1)

ThinkSystem SR950 (7X12, Xeon SP Gen 1)
Network Server
Lenovo

22 Jun 2022
151586

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 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
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2022
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: PSE141J - v2.40 (11/01/2021)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
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:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® Enterprise Performance 10K HDD, SAS, 900GB (ST900MM0168) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.0-21.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2022	Driver Size: 17998
	Checksum: 3444b9c7576c83965fb7d2fc96fc9aa0

Lenovo ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2022	Driver Size: 249897
	Checksum: f831c84b40fa394d96490284d300d08c

Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2022	Driver Size: 249897
	Checksum: f831c84b40fa394d96490284d300d08c

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2022	Driver Size: 91322
	Checksum: aa9d888c926a38d340efd4c0c4fc304d
	Driver Version: 07.719.03.00-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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