ThinkServer SD350 (5493)

ThinkServer SD350 (5493)
Network Server
IBM

26 Jun 2016
144749

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	V1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 3.45 (05/31/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2690 v4 2.60 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo 6 Gb Compal H701-L RAID controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 HGST HUC156060CSS200 2.5-inch 600GB SAS 12Gb/s 15K Hard Disk , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~

Referenced Bulletins
146671

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 23-Aug-2014	Driver Size: 105640
	Checksum: 81262913bc140c6bfbe50e5011f4a1a1
	Driver Version: 1.0.1

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 109607
	Checksum: 25d15706518e6b0eed8b6ccd369aa8e5

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual 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

Lenovo 6 Gb Compal H701-L RAID controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 356503
	Checksum: f5bfa5bea9e84e0ac8a31a5b60cd2749
	Driver Version: 20.100.00.00

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

588998

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