RS500A-E9-RS4-U

RS500A-E9-RS4-U
Network Server
Lenovo

31 Oct 2019
148771

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Rack-optimized 1U AMD EPYC server designed for storage expandability and power efficiency.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.02
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 0801 (06/17/2019)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 7601 2.20 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	AMD EPYC™ 7601 Integrated FCH SATA Controller , 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

Install: OS installed via USB CD/DVD drive.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 hardware itself.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462

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

AMD EPYC™ 7601 Integrated FCH SATA Controller
	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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