SurePOS 700 - 4800-742

SurePOS 700 - 4800-742
Workstation
Lenovo

06 Oct 2009
130380

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
4800-742 is a value model of IBM SurePOS 700 family (xx2 generation), providing a comprehensive back-office hardware solution design for high demand retail envoirment. It is one of the most powerful, high-impact point-of-sales (POS) solutions available and first of its kind with 64-bit enabled processors.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	POS
Mother Board Revision:	04
BIOS/uEFI:	83KT130
CPU:	Intel Celeron® D Processor 326 2.53 GHz
RAM:	512 MB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 4 Serial Parallel Port
Video Adapter:	Intel Integrated GMA 900
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801FR ICH6R , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD400BD , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Teac CD-224E , IDE
USB Keyboard:	IBM
USB Mouse:	IBM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=20G dom0_max_vcpus=20.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141627

Adapters and Drivers


Intel Integrated GMA 900
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: intel_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 522508
	Checksum: c1866118166e2ea4ea69bc6d670b0d6c

Intel 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e100.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 45468
	Checksum: d5a0cecec1c82bcc1de2fe820012b110

Intel Integrated 82801FR ICH6R
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 26820
	Checksum: 7a92dea337a702c11024dde1a0356d5c

The term SUSE YES 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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SurePOS 700 - 4800-742 - Yes Bulletin 130380 | SUSE