ThinkSystem SD530 (7X21, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SD530 (7X21, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

20 May 2019
148101

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System z 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 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
Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	16024-1D 548.02A62.001D
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE135V - v2.11 (04/19/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 80 GB, multiple VM's: 16 GB each, single max VM: 64 GB
Persistent Memory:	512 GB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 128GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i Dense Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-24.1

Config Notes

The i40e used during testing is not SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the following driver package: i40e-2.0.19.tar.gz. This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/i40e%20stable/2.0.19/. Then run the following commands 1) tar -zxvf i40e-2.0.19.tar.gz 2) cd i40e-2.0.19/src 3) make install 4) reboot.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=256M,high crashkernel=128M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
146195

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 105288
	Checksum: 1eae76e8c5bf871e23a8cf646aaf1ed6

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	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

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i Dense Adapter
	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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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ThinkSystem SD530 (7X21, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 148101 | SUSE