RS500-E9-PS4

RS500-E9-PS4
Network Server
Lenovo

31 Oct 2019
148770

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Rack-optimized 1U server designed for storage and networking flexibility.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Desktop
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.02
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 5503 (07/01/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	TSST MG04ACA100N - 3.5-inch Enterprise Performance SATA HDD 1TB , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVDRAM GUE1N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Latest maintenance kernel 4.4.114-94.14-default.ppc64le is installed for basic POWER9 support from https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=MiaxOdQDFSA~

Referenced Bulletins
146671

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-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

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288
	Checksum: cda6f840da0973af652a5672382ed473
	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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