Lenovo System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)

Lenovo System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
IBM

04 Apr 2016
144381

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	V1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TBE121SUS - v2.00 (01/07/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9500620SS 500GB SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM SATA DEVICE 81Y3678 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH}
KVM Guest: The SLE11SP1 guests were configured with one virtual virtio NIC and one virtual realtek NIC.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 249143
	Checksum: ceed4fcec3c2fa76027c456bc8e570d4
	Driver Version: 3.137

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58775
	Checksum: 7a0c250f60b9ac6b9684c7be9f36b03e
	Driver Version: 3.0

IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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