System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v3)

System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v3)
Network Server
Intel Corporation

15 Mar 2017
145527

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
Designed in a compact, versatile 1U two-socket rack server, the System x3550 M5 rack server fuels almost any workload from infrastructure to high-performance computing (HPC) to cloud or big data with leadership security, efficiency, and reliability. Integrated with up to two Intel Xeon processors of the E5-2600 v3 product family with faster, energy-efficient TruDDR4 Memory, the x3550 M5 delivers exceptional performance. Storage can include up to 12 drives in an impressive selection of sizes and types.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TBE106MUS - v1.11 (07/09/2015)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM SATA DEVICE 81Y3680 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-14.3

Config Notes

Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: single disk RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted and requires the following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16. (mem and vcpus amounts can be changed).
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=171M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 97943
	Checksum: bc38de68188950d700a24d35f95d5305

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 257119
	Checksum: 7783b1227da4822b3f75560b2454836a
	Driver Version: 3.137

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 193671
	Checksum: 53af029c73b2affc872f33b0be90e900
	Driver Version: 06.807.10.00-rc1

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 13-Oct-2015	Driver Size: 64511
	Checksum: bd60e5d1e3c2acc8b381c10f2a20a1fc
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Intel Corporation
Columbia Design Center
100 Center Point Circle, Suite 200
Columbia , SC 29210
Voice: 803-216-2100
Website: www.intel.com

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System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v3) - Yes Bulletin 145527 | SUSE