System x3750 M4 (8753/E5-4600 v2)

System x3750 M4 (8753/E5-4600 v2)
Network Server
Intel Corporation

02 Nov 2017
146155

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

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
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	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:	PASS 2
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A5E115A - v1.70 (01/16/2017)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-4657L v2 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, single max VM guest: 96 GB, multiple VM guests: 20 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel BD82C602 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 81Y3672 SATA DEVICE , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=153M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
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), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

Broadcom® NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 1096831
	Checksum: bebdb04234ec2edf28b235d26dfa0015
	Driver Version: 1.712.30-0

IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller
	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

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 72591
	Checksum: 3469a12a768d6bacc7a451a8ac50c8e7
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Intel Corporation
Columbia Design Center
100 Center Point Circle, Suite 200
Columbia , SC 29210
Voice: 803-216-2100
Website: www.intel.com

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