PowerEdge MX740c

PowerEdge MX740c
Network Server
Lenovo

10 Dec 2018
147311

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):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.6.11 (11/20/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8180M Processor 2.50 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 3072 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 842 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 842 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H745P MX , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Enterprise Performance 15K HDD 500 GB SAS (ST600MP0025) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE 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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (the parameters are required, the specific values can be changed).
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disks configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 1 device.

Referenced Bulletins
146200

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

2 Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40evf.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 209528
	Checksum: f594350eaf4db42d480f5f19bfa6f7e8
	Driver Version: 3.0.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 672856
	Checksum: ed0ba4d00cc73bffeeda57b9f3ec8b73
	Driver Version: 2.1.14-k

Dell PERC H745P MX
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 288872
	Checksum: 05a11c19ea5020998382f29c3ae31971
	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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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PowerEdge MX740c - Yes Bulletin 147311 | SUSE