ThinkSystem SR630 V3 (7D73, Xeon SP Gen 4)

ThinkSystem SR630 V3 (7D73, Xeon SP Gen 4)
Network Server
IBM

26 Jun 2023
152300

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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
For more information about this system, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	05
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: ESE109N - v1.10 (01/17/2023)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8490H Processor 1.90 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 900GB 15K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.0-150400.80.1

Config Notes

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.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=263M,high crashkernel=152M,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: two separate RAID 0 devices.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146876

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 50790
	Checksum: 5c76baec83b61418041090c658eda587

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 115387
	Checksum: 1b2f57e38af6e5db003c3595cf69c69c

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 120601
	Checksum: 9c1116254d37d1f8b31e5a02038f86bf
	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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

590661

ThinkSystem SR630 V3 (7D73, Xeon SP Gen 4) - Yes Bulletin 152300 | SUSE