IBM System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600)

IBM System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600)
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

30 Nov 2017
146350

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The right choice when compromise is not an option, the Lenovo System x3550 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. This compact rack server offers an energy-smart, afordable and easy-to-use solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt, support for the Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5 processor and advanced memory support, the x3550 M4 offers balanced performance and density.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 12
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: D7E158DUS - v2.40 (04/10/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2670 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 48 GB, single max VM guest: 36 GB, multiple VM guests: 8 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM 300GB 10K SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 and SLES 12 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.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.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=24G dom0_max_vcpus=12".

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 356223
	Checksum: a9ef182572c767dbda6b901513d6c487
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 68719
	Checksum: 8b4616efe6a08f326fc13d04a1e512d3
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

IBM ServeRAID M1115 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

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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065
Website: www.Oracle.com

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IBM System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600) - Yes Bulletin 146350 | SUSE