ThinkSystem SN850 Flex System (7X15)

ThinkSystem SN850 Flex System (7X15)
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Dec 2018
147405

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE125L - v1.40 (09/07/2018)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 600GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-12.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-sockets by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two additional USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=314M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP1 guest. One of the Lenovo Embedded 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 954257f3b5e5f8324936b32f7328b2e3

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 111736
	Checksum: 7adeb8724d9d888e0ea1e764b195287f
	Driver Version: 1.6.4

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (Quad-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 692832
	Checksum: deefd3f10669a376bf265987611591f8
	Driver Version: 2.3.2-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i 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

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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