PowerEdge R910 / 4 Intel® Xeon® E7-4870 2.40 GHz

PowerEdge R910 / 4 Intel® Xeon® E7-4870 2.40 GHz
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Apr 2011
134957

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	2.2.0
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	2 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X4 4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 5 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eW
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PERC H700 Integrated , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® Savvio® (ST9146852SS) 15K.2 6-Gbps 146-GB Hard Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST DVD+/-RW TS-L633C , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	PowerEdge 2160AS KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=187M,high crashkernel=142M,low using YaST.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: single HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives, each configured as separate RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
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.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Flex System CN4054S 10Gb Virtual Fabric adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eW
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

Intel Integrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: 02ccb110f6b9828baf0c7a9e8544bcb0

Dell PERC H700 Integrated
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 118712
	Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232

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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PowerEdge R910 / 4 Intel® Xeon® E7-4870 2.40 GHz - Yes Bulletin 134957 | SUSE