ThinkSystem SR850 (7X19, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR850 (7X19, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

09 Dec 2019
148897

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12
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:	L154TR2 Electron Planar MB 16006-1C 548.02911.001C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE147M - v2.41 (10/31/2019)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8270 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host: 512 GB, multiple VMs: 96 GB each, single max VM: 384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 4 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 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 32 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-25.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 FV guests. The add-on 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller adapter was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 103832
	Checksum: cd2f5f1a5d526dc27aa118a8e7544ca8

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 140704


Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 772792
	Checksum: aba1cbebe0fdab46ab7f9e416f65ff49
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 158688
	Checksum: 84a0965c6e1309eefd1f2649eb8520c4
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: 8afbc1057aef35279a3cf050876e1a1a
	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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