ThinkSystem SR670 (7Y36, Xeon SP Gen 1)

ThinkSystem SR670 (7Y36, Xeon SP Gen 1)
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Jul 2020
149440

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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 2 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: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

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: G1E113K - v2.20 (12/19/2019)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6148 Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	Host: 384 GB, multiple VMs: 64 GB each, single max VM: 320 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X4 Serial 2 USB Ports
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:	Lenovo ThinkSystem with Mirroring Enablement Kit - 128 GB M.2 drive , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 5200 480GB Entry SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 1TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch HUSMM32 400GB Performance SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

Referenced Bulletins
141249

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

Lenovo ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: iavf.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 222120
	Checksum: 2268a2f2cbbc5978756865c1be4c51ae
	Driver Version: 3.2.3-k

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 496728
	Checksum: bbf398d0be838fc838a89ffa888d4513
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12GB Adapter

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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ThinkSystem SR670 (7Y36, Xeon SP Gen 1) - Yes Bulletin 149440 | SUSE