PowerEdge R620

PowerEdge R620
Network Server
Lenovo

27 Oct 2014
142072

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
A hyper-dense 2-socket, 1U rack server, the Dell™ PowerEdge™ R620 has a large memory footprint and impressive I/O options that make it an exceptional platform for space-sensitive environments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A05
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI : 2.4.3 (07/09/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602J PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9900805SS 900GB 6Gbp/s SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DU-8A3S DVD+-RW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-97.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: single SATA hard disk connected to on-board SATA HBA, M.2-two SSD configured as RAID1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=156M,high crashkernel=112M,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/.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP2 FV guest. The Intel Ethernet Connection X722 adapter was used in this testing.
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-2.4.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 2e18ee51e3395e6f9f9817ef7a9ab886

Broadcom® NetXtreme BCM5720 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 255327
	Checksum: 93319c81002c211d917ab344aaeb9fc1
	Driver Version: 3.136

Intel BD82C602J PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 62335
	Checksum: 4122cf892b7d16858ec5c89c063ad84e
	Driver Version: 3.0

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H710P
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 1491d21129f10d37bc159b9a6f36a1cc
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-rc1

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 R620 - Yes Bulletin 142072 | SUSE