System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600)

System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600)
Network Server
Suma Technology Co., Ltd.

17 Dec 2015
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the Lenovo System x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable performance and optimized efficiency for your business critical applications. Start with the basics and upgrade as your business changes without jeopardizing existing investments. Virtualizing the PC infrastructure into one server can provide access to a powerful server with abundant storage space, while significantly reducing IT costs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	PASS12
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: Y5E142CUS - v1.82 - (04/11/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2670 2.60 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST3300657SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVD DH40N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=182M,high crashkernel=222M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: The network configuration in the system does not support SR-IOV or PCI Pass-through.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
143872

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: a9ff8d5c05122cb81c250915190b6b5d

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 345735
	Checksum: c6e591217c50d8be57599231598a6801
	Driver Version: 5.2.18-k

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 64759
	Checksum: 2b582bd14e5672b9371a9d873e785b85
	Driver Version: 3.0

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 231400c0c6871290e279dba7766c2fd7
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-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:

Suma Technology Co., Ltd.
No.88 Nansong Road
Yushan Town, Kunshan City
Jiangsu Province 215399
CHINA
Voice: 0512-36916970
Website: https://www.cancon.com.cn

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System x3500 M4 (7383/E5-2600) - Yes Bulletin 143955 | SUSE