ESXi for VMware Cloud

ESXi for VMware Cloud
Network Server
Lenovo

29 Aug 2017
145854

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
VMware Cloud is the unified SDDC platform that brings together VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX into a natively integrated stack to deliver enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure. Designed to reduce capital and operation costs. Maximize IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, SUSE® Linux Enterprise OS.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	Intel 440 BX Desktop Reference Platform / Motherboard Rev B0
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: 6.00 (06/13/2017)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 6 TB, multiple 64-bit VM guests: 3 TB, 32-bit guests: 64 GB, single max VM guest: 6128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial Parallel Port 3 PCI-ISA 4 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	VMware® VMware SVGA II
Host Bus Adapter:	VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux , IDE VMware® Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	VMware® Virtual Hard Disk , SCSI
CD/DVD:	VMware® Virtual IDE CDR10 , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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).
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.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.

Referenced Bulletins
141324

Adapters and Drivers


VMware® VMware SVGA II
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 10560

	Driver Version: 11.0.3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vmware_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 5716

	Driver Version: 11.0.3

VMware® VMXNET3 Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 77407

	Driver Version: 1.1.30.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: vmxnet3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 58587

	Driver Version: 1.1.30.0-k

VMware® Virtual IDE Device for SUSE Linux
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 51119

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 13383

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 39751

	Driver Version: 2.13

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 10087

	Driver Version: 0.2.15

VMware® Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 39527

	Driver Version: 1.0.1.0-k

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: vmw_pvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 28699

	Driver Version: 1.0.1.0-k

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

563679

ESXi for VMware Cloud - Yes Bulletin 145854 | SUSE