ThinkSystem SR850 (7X19, Xeon SP Gen 1)

ThinkSystem SR850 (7X19, Xeon SP Gen 1)
Network Server
IBM

11 Aug 2020
149567

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	L154TR2 Electron Planar MB 16006-1C 548.02911.001C
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TEE151L - v2.51 (01/13/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	384 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	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

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
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 http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 x86_64 guests. One of the embedded IBM Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
Host network bridging was disabled during certification testing.

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 X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 767560
	Checksum: 8e262d9f66fbc816b26754e1b1945259
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter

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For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
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