ThinkCentre M70E (0833-B1X)

ThinkCentre M70E (0833-B1X)
Workstation
Lenovo

13 Apr 2011
135302

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Desktop
Mother Board Revision:	71Y6942
BIOS/uEFI:	90KT14AUS
CPU:	Intel Core™2 Duo Processor E8400 3.0 GHz
RAM:	2 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X1 PCI Express X16 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Intel GMA X4500 (G41)
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel 82G43(ICH7) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD2500AAJS , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H653G , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:	NONE
USB Keyboard:	IBM SK-8815
USB Mouse:	Lenovo M-UAE119
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

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), and the virtio drivers was used.
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 a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers


Intel GMA X4500 (G41)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: intel_drv.so
	Driver Date: 24-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 349892
	Checksum: 7e381a275619ab87533b359cf0f87be9

Marvell® Yukon 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: sky2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 71024
	Checksum: 06ed230ab1d80522e43ff3a69ef27cb9

Intel 82G43(ICH7)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 36488
	Checksum: 71be0740159edb0adc2351a454525632

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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