ThinkServer RS160 (70Tx/E3-1200 v6)

ThinkServer RS160 (70Tx/E3-1200 v6)
Network Server
IBM

12 Dec 2018
147327

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	LV-C232 Rev 1.04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: VB1TS286 (09/03/2018)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1280 v6 3.90 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 520i PCIe Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA) Intel GL82C232 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	TSST DT01ACA050 500GB 6 Gbps SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ThinkServer 3.5-inch 6TB 7.2K Enterprise SATA 6Gbps 512e Hard Drive for RS-Series , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVDRAM GUB0N SATA CD/DVDRW Drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-6.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141518

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 131176
	Checksum: 149bfa51ca71a46c1c633ca8d5df552b

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Jul-2018	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: ce67cf04fb264ed6500d4b511253d077
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

2 Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 496416
	Checksum: 2c90b0a82b5c309d3e48d9b4484120f3
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 520i PCIe Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: c63247fe84b50d4a45142fceaa6f21d4
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

Intel GL82C232 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 81416
	Checksum: fb8ee8668f097d93d8cac43d02588feb
	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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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