ThinkSystem ST650 V3 (7D7A, Xeon SP Gen 4)

ThinkSystem ST650 V3 (7D7A, Xeon SP Gen 4)
Network Server
IBM

08 May 2023
152073

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: USE113Y - v2.10 (03/26/2023)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8450H Processor 2.00 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 540-8i PCIe Gen4 12Gb SAS/SATA Adapter
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch S4520 960GB Read Intensive SATA 6Gb HS SSD Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.1-52.1

Config Notes

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. The system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: single disk JBOD. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=273M,high crashkernel=162M,low using YaST.
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-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the integrated Lenovo CN4052 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 31130
	Checksum: 734c0cf8a6d7d153f61372e89322ca39

Broadcom® NetXtreme® E-Series BCM57416 10GBASE-T PCIe 3.0 Ethernet Controller (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 170208
	Checksum: 5db783300a9df101394dbff821ac347a

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 540-8i PCIe Gen4 12Gb SAS/SATA Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 91281
	Checksum: 73fe8023764e189c76be50188530b557
	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:

IBM
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ThinkSystem ST650 V3 (7D7A, Xeon SP Gen 4) - Yes Bulletin 152073 | SUSE