ThinkServer RD650 (E5-2600 v3)

ThinkServer RD650 (E5-2600 v3)
Network Server
IBM

22 Dec 2016
145228

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	RAFALE MB Rev 1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: PB2TS360 v3.60.0 (03/09/2016)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2640 v3 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 24 GB, 32-bit VM guest: 8GB, single max VM guest: 112 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 720i AnyRAID Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=187M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
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 guests. The Intel® 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet adapter was used for this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 105903
	Checksum: fa330b167f8c09c2d71c4e89b516b418

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 14-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: d8354d50377cbbdc635b0a299a0f5d38
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 628983
	Checksum: 917601927ed3ac76295bd6a5c5521679

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: b8dee794a1123732c7ba8475033703e3
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 720i AnyRAID Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 43d97f95db88b476471065c1667d0589
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-rc1

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:

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

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