ThinkServer TS250 (70Ux/E3-1200 v6)

ThinkServer TS250 (70Ux/E3-1200 v6)
Network Server
IBM

03 Sep 2020
149733

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 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:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	Ver. 0.7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: S06KT78C - v1.78 (11/14/2019)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1275 v6 3.80 GHz
RAM:	Host: 64 GB, multiple VMs: 12 GB each, single max VM: 48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 8 USB Ports PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X1 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Intel HD Graphics P630
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel GL82C236 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 520i PCIe Adapter , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	TSST DT01ACA050 500GB 6 Gbps SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Philips and Lite-On Digital Storage Corporation DVD-RW DH16AFSH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device two disk RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (parameter values can be changed).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was 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 Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
146039

Adapters and Drivers


Intel HD Graphics P630
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: i915.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 4688376
	Checksum: 365f5ad5329e00a4eadf9211836f72c7

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

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 GL82C236 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 81200
	Checksum: 6c62cb81fb973cf2e6ed7d35c964be09
	Driver Version: 3.0

Lenovo ThinkServer RAID 520i PCIe Adapter

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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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ThinkServer TS250 (70Ux/E3-1200 v6) - Yes Bulletin 149733 | SUSE