ThinkServer RD450 (70Qx/E5-2600 v4)

ThinkServer RD450 (70Qx/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

19 Sep 2017
145939

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
For more information about this system, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: VB3TS424 - v4.24 (03/23/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v4 2.00 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, single max VM guest: 112 GB, multiple VM guests: 24 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 720i AnyRAID Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC109060CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=132M,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: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 110615
	Checksum: 25a265f887c0d4cf4122d039be7edd23

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: drm.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 629239
	Checksum: 11dc012a6820631069019c6571691ad7

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 14-Oct-2016	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: d8354d50377cbbdc635b0a299a0f5d38
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

2 Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 356223
	Checksum: a9ef182572c767dbda6b901513d6c487
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 720i AnyRAID Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 236751
	Checksum: c96d2df516f3a67f3960bb982a2a0b3d
	Driver Version: 07.701.17.00-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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

579432

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