ThinkSystem ST50 (7Y48, Xeon E-2200)

ThinkSystem ST50 (7Y48, Xeon E-2200)
Network Server
IBM

11 Aug 2020
149550

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

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: ITE107G (12/28/2019)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® E-2286G Processor 4.0 GHz
RAM:	32 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 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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).
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.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141518

Adapters and Drivers


Intel UHD Graphics 630
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: i915.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 4688376
	Checksum: 365f5ad5329e00a4eadf9211836f72c7

Intel Ethernet Connection I219-LM
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 563104
	Checksum: 71627181422eeb396a7f812e54ac2ef3
	Driver Version: 3.2.6-k

Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 (Quad 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 730-8i 1GB Cache 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:

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

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