ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SR650 (7X05, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
Inspur Corporation

09 Dec 2019
148902

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 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: Fully Virtualized

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 8280 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	Host DRAM: 384 GB, mulitiple VMs: 300 GB each, single max VM: 1 TB
Persistent Memory:	2TB, 4 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 512GB modules
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 8.4.0-25.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
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.
CPU: This system is 2 CPU socket configuration with 20 core dual chip module per socket, totalling 40 cores. The Power10 3.9 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 20 cores and with SMT8 totalling 320 vCPU threads.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power10 hardware itself.

Referenced Bulletins
151728

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 Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 501448
	Checksum: 73be0bab3b1f284e5d2674a7f8ac0dd1
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Quad-Port) for 10GBASE-T
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 225600
	Checksum: 64a1aa0afa708a29b50b5e602253bfae
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 26-Sep-2019	Driver Size: 785376
	Checksum: 928194a22e29e29dce060ffdb3ef5b82
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash 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" Enterprise 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:

Inspur Corporation
Building C. NO.2
Xinxi Road
Shangdi, Haidian District
Beijing 100080
CHINA

607971

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