ZXCLOUD R8500 G4

ZXCLOUD R8500 G4
Network Server
Lenovo

17 Jul 2020
149370

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows Server 2016
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 12	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.zte.com.cn or server.zte.com.cn

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	180100
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 03.15.0100_70562 (03/03/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8276 Processor 2.20 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 768 GB, 64-bit VM Guests: 128 GB, Single Max VM 64-bit Guest Tested Memory: 512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 12 PCI Express X4 6 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Intel SSD D3-S4510 Series, 480GB, SATA (SSDSC2KB480G801) , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Intel SSD D3-S4510 Series, 2.5in SATA, 960GB, (SSDSC2KB960G801) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-41.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: single RAID 0 device.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=221M,high crashkernel=182M,low" using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
146630

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 131624
	Checksum: 4e9d1682c5fd55e5303cc52190127078

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 114288
	Checksum: b3f8daf7170ed565963992c55752fb17
	Driver Version: 1.1.5

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-SR2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 772792
	Checksum: ff93c743d2dcd3d61f22f44dcb6dd701
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbevf.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 158688
	Checksum: c9b04a66d4a9399be51de705e4eef42f
	Driver Version: 4.1.0-k

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 10GBASE-T
LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i

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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