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

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

29 Jun 2023
152321

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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:	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:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD 4 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch S4520 960GB Read Intensive SATA 6Gb NHS SSD
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.0-150400.80.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter,Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing - this adapter was using the standard SP3 e1000e driver.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe)

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® 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: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 302766
	Checksum: 519dd9e65b4ac2ba9fc7b0eabadc10bc

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 540-8i PCIe Gen4 12Gb SAS/SATA 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

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ThinkSystem ST650 V3 (7D7A, Xeon SP Gen 4) - Yes Bulletin 152321 | SUSE