ThinkSystem SR550 (7X03, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR550 (7X03, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

08 Jul 2019
148401

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 1

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE SLES 15	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:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Value Rev: 1.1
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE137C - v2.20 (05/14/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host: 96 GB, multiple VM's: 20 GB each, single max VM: 80 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 2TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=263M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: two separate RAID 0 devices.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT 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: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 102080
	Checksum: 07cad92cf9d842281e5e704f469b323c

Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 760616
	Checksum: 7266d27d397e793c77e347c30a4fe464
	Driver Version: 2.7.6-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 219656
	Checksum: 15ffaed855b5c758bb231ce7a022e3eb
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 296104
	Checksum: 0c021a1293826b2f98a1f58789f0ebda
	Driver Version: 07.707.50.00-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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065
Website: www.Oracle.com

589560

ThinkSystem SR550 (7X03, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 148401 | SUSE