System x3530 M4 (7160/E5-2400 v2)

System x3530 M4 (7160/E5-2400 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo

17 Jul 2015
143407

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The Lenovo® System x3530 M4 server delivers dual-socket performance in a 1U compact footprint. Featuring Intel processors, the x3530 M4 is a flexible rack server positioned as a good investment value, while considering your total cost of ownership (TCO) and Lenovo commitment. It is designed to provide more affordable value and increased flexibility with performance and quality to match. Designed with redundancy, flexible subsystems, and a wider range of configuration options, the x3530 M4 also offers an innovative Feature on Demand (FoD) design for an easier upgrade path.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: BEE142BUS - v1.71 - (07/31/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2407 v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-27.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader ans system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=158M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters 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), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: afa29ac849eb602b2925bd879cb17145
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 238015
	Checksum: b160e747ac4812a220aa94b6b0c17296
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 130491
	Checksum: e6e98d763dc08f697087673dfa038972
	Driver Version: 06.806.08.00-rc1

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
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