Synergy 480 Gen10 Compute Module 2.50 GHz Twenty-Eight Core

Synergy 480 Gen10 Compute Module 2.50 GHz Twenty-Eight Core
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Jul 2017
145735

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information, please visit https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/synergy/synergy-compute.hits-12.html

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	Gen10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.0 (06/01/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180 Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P204i-c SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HP EH0146FARWD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSD configured as RAID 0. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=231M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
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-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the internal X550-T2 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: libfb.so
	Driver Date: 26-May-2015	Driver Size: 138752
	Checksum: ed7cf2d9c60c06fca06019e821c4b4eb
	Driver Version: 1.0.0

HPE Synergy 3820C 10/20Gb Converged Network Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 1866374
	Checksum: 90796eda6c8f097b515c616857e725bd
	Driver Version: 1.714.0

HPE Smart Array P204i-c SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 19-May-2017	Driver Size: 121862
	Checksum: 614654f5ac3914f81cf5e5b368c94adb
	Driver Version: 1.0.4-100

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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