ThinkSystem ST58 (7Y50, Xeon E-2100)

ThinkSystem ST58 (7Y50, Xeon E-2100)
Network Server
IBM

31 Jan 2020
149109

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Rev. v1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: ITE105C (11/02/2019)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® E-2186G Processor 3.80 GHz
RAM:	Host: 32 GB, multiple VMs: 8 GB each, single max VM: 24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X16 PCI Express X1 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Intel UHD Graphics 630
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Non-Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-38.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Maintenance updates: Xen 8479 (bnc#836239) and Linux Kernel 9329 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16"
System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html

Referenced Bulletins
141694

Adapters and Drivers


Intel UHD Graphics 630
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: i915.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 4020992
	Checksum: 7630365788a21c685e7540609e8259f1

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 501448
	Checksum: f89f71f9f1bb0535e16c00d825b1223c
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igbvf.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 91792
	Checksum: c7b3659529f2dc8efe5c4486c7229403
	Driver Version: 2.4.0-k

Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 558144
	Checksum: 43c7e1b5f8d257fd43c08c2c7c7546b4
	Driver Version: 3.2.6-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 1GB Cache PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: a649376d8c32760e3d73ee1c44058ef7
	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:

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

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