ThinkSystem ST550 (7X09)

ThinkSystem ST550 (7X09)
Network Server
IBM

16 Jul 2018
146904

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	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
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
For more information on this system, please visit www.levovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.2
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: O0E112P - v1.20 (02/07/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6138T Processor 2.00 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 192 GB, single max VM guest: 176 GB, multiple VM guests: SLES - 36 GB each and Windows 16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVD-RAM GHC0N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-71.2

Config Notes

Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Apr-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: df2869648a526d6bd94917fe2c40285b

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Apr-2018	Driver Size: 672856
	Checksum: 3a86957ecd363465b70eeaaa1d712cd2
	Driver Version: 2.1.14-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40evf.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Apr-2018	Driver Size: 209528
	Checksum: 22934124a5ed1d469f636db5147b8372
	Driver Version: 3.0.0-k

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Apr-2018	Driver Size: 79168
	Checksum: 5c93db1146fde2efd8f840838ba58195
	Driver Version: 3.0

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 10-Apr-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 036b2551729d21ca87d2adfb96139431
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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