RS720-E9-RS24-E

RS720-E9-RS24-E
Network Server
Lenovo

28 Oct 2019
148764

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
High performance 2U cache server with 24 DIMMs and 24 drive bays.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.04
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 3501 (09/21/2018)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Toshiba Enterprise HDD 900 GB, SAS (AL15SEB09EQ) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

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=12G 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.

Referenced Bulletins
145826

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 130840
	Checksum: 91f3d373f3311797e9becd7cb5292262

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 496992
	Checksum: 1bbdfabf69501dd0a3c43a5e18035bd4
	Driver Version: 5.4.0-k

LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
	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:

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

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RS720-E9-RS24-E - Yes Bulletin 148764 | SUSE