PowerEdge R640

PowerEdge R640
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Jul 2017
145700

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.0.3 (05/30/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180 Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® ST1000NX0453 2.5 inch, 1TB, 12Gb/s, SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=173M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-sockets by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (parameter values can be changed).
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports (each node also has an internal USB port).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI pass-through.
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


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 47ef1d90155625b73d3d4281ce034251

Intel I350c rNDC GbE 4 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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 25-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 72895
	Checksum: f0ad0f11072e317bc80570a7483343e9
	Driver Version: 3.0

Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H730P Mini
	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 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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PowerEdge R640 - Yes Bulletin 145700 | SUSE