Advanced Server DS225

Advanced Server DS225
Network Server
IBM

11 Nov 2020
149990

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	31S5BMB0030
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: S5BH3B16.H01 (01/21/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8260 Processor 2.40 GHz
RAM:	1536 GB
Persistent Memory:	3 TB, 24 Intel® Optane™ DC 128 GB Persistent Memory Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C624 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port) , FibreChannel
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD D3-S4610, 1.92TB, SATA (SSDSC2KG019T8) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.4.0-41.2

Config Notes

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-2.5.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=263M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
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: two separate RAID 0 devices. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to SLES 15 FV guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146871

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 130840
	Checksum: 91f3d373f3311797e9becd7cb5292262

Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-May-2019	Driver Size: 760616

	Driver Version: 2.7.6-k

Intel C624 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 81288

	Driver Version: 3.0

2 Emulex Corporation LPe31002 FC (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: lpfc.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 1798120
	Checksum: b9271150fa2f96e06ba28b0cc25b8c35
	Driver Version: 0:12.2.0.0

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
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Advanced Server DS225 - Yes Bulletin 149990 | SUSE