ThinkServer RD540

ThinkServer RD540
Network Server
Lenovo

24 Nov 2015
143838

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI-Legacy: A1TSA0A (07/14/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	320 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X16 Serial
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2300
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST600MM0006 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG Electronics Ltd. DVD-RAM GT80N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Kdump (SLE12SP1): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=256M,low using YaST.
Serial port: The serial port is for system development purposes and not general user access. It was not tested during certification and therefore is not supported.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 SP1 x86-64 guests. One of the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T2 was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2300
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 12-May-2015	Driver Size: 14588208
	Checksum: e32ce0677419b22ed04c0a096fd98546

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 134960
	Checksum: 01ba3e8b5ba7aff90b4e5d72d1a05efe
	Driver Version: 1.0.1

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 334639
	Checksum: 9d13a78672ff61d57ef1b462ada1ae55
	Driver Version: 5.2.15-k

Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 397455
	Checksum: a9fef230bb00f80ea9e91634d2347bc3
	Driver Version: 3.2.5-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9240-8i
Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58775
	Checksum: 7a0c250f60b9ac6b9684c7be9f36b03e
	Driver Version: 3.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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ThinkServer RD540 - Yes Bulletin 143838 | SUSE