NF5486M5

NF5486M5
Network Server
IBM

29 Jan 2019
147580

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System z 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 3.0.2 (12/04/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8156 Processor 3.60 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C622 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD DC S3520 Series, M.2 SATA (SSDSCKJB960G7) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP4 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Hard drive configuration: separate RAID 0. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10549 (x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing.
SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso 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: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 110615
	Checksum: 25a265f887c0d4cf4122d039be7edd23

Intel 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 502023
	Checksum: e974c6e08150998e94cccb54f7c9c799
	Driver Version: 4.4.0-k

Intel C622 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 72591
	Checksum: 3469a12a768d6bacc7a451a8ac50c8e7
	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 configuration, please visit
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/linuxone/

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NF5486M5 - Yes Bulletin 147580 | SUSE