PowerEdge R7615

PowerEdge R7615
Network Server
IBM

28 Feb 2023
151965

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.1.2 (12/16/2022)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 9654P 2.40 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
Hard Disk Drive:	Dell Express Flash Ent NVMe SSD, 7.68 TB, U.2
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.1-52.1

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 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S 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.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=251M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM 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 Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 17999
	Checksum: 70e2e804042165de727265150a5ba2f5

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 133614
	Checksum: a02abff3db3974186b0bfb2a68639857

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 104054
	Checksum: 1e77d5a9e953a8b24e1d74073e999787

Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpi3mr.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 49209
	Checksum: 65cd3c59f48dff5cd05d91f317c7ed27
	Driver Version: 00.255.45.01

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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PowerEdge R7615 - Yes Bulletin 151965 | SUSE