ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 1)

ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 1)
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Dec 2019
148830

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized

Product Description
For more information about this system, please visit www.lenovo.com.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Rev 1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE148M - v2.41 (10/31/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host: 96 GB, mutiple VMs: 16 GB each, single max VM: 64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-28.1

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 16.0 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 16.0 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: https://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_16.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 140704


	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: 8d7c65411fa907ee3b9cce2d7645fbdc

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 501448
	Checksum: 07c14f4a5c433a816701900b367e1213
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 785376
	Checksum: 8f3221766186087f3d9a7324dca57ce1
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 225600
	Checksum: 107ebaaf34bd2744ebafea8133cff37e
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: 025b37ec5bfd23f34f6ee8ed59b60758
	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-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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