ZXCLOUD R8500 G4

ZXCLOUD R8500 G4
Network Server
Lenovo

07 Dec 2020
150035

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	180100
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 03.18.0100 (08/12/2020)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Gold 6252 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X4 6 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Samsung® PM883 MZ7LH1T9HMLT-00005 1.9TB SATA SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 Intel SSD D3-S4610 Series 960GB SATA (SSDSC2KG960G8) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9329 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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: TheUnisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141670

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 115632
	Checksum: f1fc1a718c1def157bd5b84ad0d9dbae

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (Dual-Port)
2 Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-SR2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 767560
	Checksum: 8e262d9f66fbc816b26754e1b1945259
	Driver Version: 5.1.0-k

Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i

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:
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ZXCLOUD R8500 G4 - Yes Bulletin 150035 | SUSE