BullSequana S200

BullSequana S200
Network Server
IBM

20 Jun 2019
148213

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
The BullSequana S200 has up to 2 Intel Xeon 8280M processors with a memory capacity of up to 3TB.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	12001509-006
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: BIOS_CCL041.27.02.105 (04/16/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280M Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	3 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	2 SanDisk SDLF1DAM-400G , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 HGST Ultrastar® SS300 HUSMM3240ASS204 400GB , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 SAS, 4TB (ST4000NM0034) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	NEC M310 Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=165M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 106720
	Checksum: 69845dd9d9465dfc3d37d29b27d4ad5a

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 692832
	Checksum: 81ff28d475b50f222e6919cb7b47f393
	Driver Version: 2.3.2-k

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

Intel X99 Chipset (DHX99 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 81416
	Checksum: d8b69510f19884bd09cff1e0911e538d
	Driver Version: 3.0

Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 1736808
	Checksum: 5fe519893782cc91daf83374e6b06adc
	Driver Version: 0:12.0.0.6

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