ThinkServer RD550 (70Cx/E5-2600 v4)

ThinkServer RD550 (70Cx/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Lenovo

12 Feb 2019
147635

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	RAVEN MB Rev 1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: PB1TS470 (07/05/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 128 GB, single max VM guest: 96 GB, multiple VM guests: 16 GB each
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2400
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo Thinkserver RAID 510i AnyRAID , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power11 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power11 hardware itself.
CPU: This system is a 4U Rack unit configuration with 2 CPU sockets. The Power11 2.8--3.95 GHz CPUs tested each have 30 cores (DCM) and with SMT8. Totaling for the system 60 cores or 480 vCPU threads.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2400
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 131176
	Checksum: b3ff4993df2af825e45dc905f267086f

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: b3f8daf7170ed565963992c55752fb17
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 496416
	Checksum: 9180fee4626d09eb47ceeb4937827299
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

Lenovo Thinkserver RAID 510i AnyRAID
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 293840
	Checksum: 635faadb60d3bceab0350cc9d3794166
	Driver Version: 07.704.04.00-rc1

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 81416
	Checksum: d8b69510f19884bd09cff1e0911e538d
	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:

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

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