ThinkSystem SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

09 Dec 2019
148832

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

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:	Value Plus v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE147M - v2.41 (10/31/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8253 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host DRAM: 192 GB, multiple VMs: 40 GB each, single max VM: 160 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 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Cheetah 15K.7 SAS ST3600057SS 600GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-28.1

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM 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 POWER8 as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Required configuration: SLES 11 SP3 will run in POWER7 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER8 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER7 processor with SMT4.
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.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
SUSE update ISO: The SLES-11-SP3-MINI-ISO-power8.iso is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This update must be downloaded and used before SUSE Linux Enterprise Server install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-POWER/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html and review the installation instructions.

Referenced Bulletins
141806

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 Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 1GbE
	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 530-8i 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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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ThinkSystem SR590 (7X98, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 148832 | SUSE