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 | Lenovo System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v3)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company | 15 Mar 2017
145529 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
Designed in a compact, versatile 1U two-socket rack server, the Lenovo 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 E5-2600 v3 processors with fast, 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. Suggested use: Database, virtualization and cloud computing, infrastructure security, systems management, enterprise applications, collaboration/email, streaming media, web, and HPC.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: TBE106KUS - v1.10 (04/17/2015) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | 96 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 5 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Lenovo
ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 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 7.4.0-27.4 |
Config Notes
- Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
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Referenced Bulletins
141249
Adapters and Drivers
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| 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 |
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| Broadcom®
BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 249855 |
| | Checksum: 9eace0ebd0f4be4d53b5fc269eaa9478 |
| | Driver Version: 3.137 |
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| Lenovo
ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 174663 |
| | Checksum: ac4944583f761a46de62c8738ee82c34 |
| | Driver Version: 06.806.08.00-rc1 |
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| Intel
C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| | Driver Date: 12-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 58775 |
| | Checksum: 0bb8da5fbd20fcdaf1323e4d692805d4 |
| | Driver Version: 3.0 |
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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:
Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins
, CO
80528
Website: http://www.hp.com
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