VMware ESXi 6.5

VMware ESXi 6.5
Network Server
Lenovo

01 Dec 2016
145109

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
VMware ESXi is a complete, scalable and robust virtualization platform. Designed to reduce capital and operation costs. Maximize IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, SUSE® Linux Enterprise OS and hardware.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Intel 440 BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 6.00 (04/05/2016)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 6 TB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 3000 GB, 32-bit guests: 16 GB, single max VM guest: 6128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial Parallel Port 3 PCI-ISA 4 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	VMware® VMware SVGA II
Host Bus Adapter:	VMware® Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter , SCSI VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	VMware® Virtual Hard Disk rev:1.0 (SCSI) , SCSI
CD/DVD:	VMware® Virtual IDE CDR10 , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: two HDD and two M.2 (boot) drives configured as separate RAID 1 devices. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (parameters are required, parameter values can be changed).
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=192M,high crashkernel=132M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE 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).

Adapters and Drivers


VMware® VMware SVGA II
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 5716

	Driver Version: 11.0.3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 10560

	Driver Version: 11.0.3

VMware® VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 77407

	Driver Version: 1.1.30.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58587

	Driver Version: 1.1.30.0-k

VMware® Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 39527

	Driver Version: 1.0.1.0-k

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 28699

	Driver Version: 1.0.1.0-k

VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 51119

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 39751

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 13383

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 10087

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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