ThinkSystem SN850 (7X15, Xeon SP Gen 2)

ThinkSystem SN850 (7X15, Xeon SP Gen 2)
Network Server
IBM

21 Jul 2020
149399

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Other Products:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Point of Service (SLEPOS)

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: IVE151L - v2.51 (01/14/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260L Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	512 GB (DRAM)
Persistent Memory:	4TB, 8 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory 512GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	USB Ports 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 600GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-26.3

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 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=212M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
Maintenance update: Update SUSE Linux Enterprise Server grub2 (624) and xen (508) were applied to the host during certification testing. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=10".
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters were used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (Quad-Port)
Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2021	Driver Size: 307352

	Driver Version: 07.713.01.00-rc1

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2021	Driver Size: 307352

	Driver Version: 07.713.01.00-rc1

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2021	Driver Size: 307352

	Driver Version: 07.713.01.00-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
3039 Cornwallis Rd.
Research Triangle Park , NC 27709

577656

ThinkSystem SN850 (7X15, Xeon SP Gen 2) - Yes Bulletin 149399 | SUSE