ThinkSystem SD650 V2 (7D1M, Xeon SP Gen 3)

ThinkSystem SD650 V2 (7D1M, Xeon SP Gen 3)
Network Server
IBM

25 May 2021
150308

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 15 Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2019
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Compute Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U8E109P-1.01 (04/08/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8380 Processor 2.30 GHz
RAM:	Host: 512 GB, multiple VMs: 64 GB each, single max VM: 448 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem U.2 PM983 1.92 TB NVMe SSD (MZQLB1T9HAJR) , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-33.1

Config Notes

Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power11 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power11 hardware itself.
CPU: This system is a 4 node configuration with 4 sockets per node, totaling 16 CPU sockets. The Power11 3.80--4.30 GHz CPUs tested each have 16 cores and with SMT8. Totaling for the system 256 cores or 2048 vCPU threads.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 19985120
	Checksum: 7175dc92a8a47f508b4a1f66c3426292

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 107136
	Checksum: f354aa27a39755237c956d102a02ea99

Mellanox® Integrated MT27710 ConnectX®-4 Lx EN (Dual Port) 25GbE & 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 2082624
	Checksum: 25183e2d244b594696d2591932501c55
	Driver Version: 5.0-0

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

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ThinkSystem SD650 V2 (7D1M, Xeon SP Gen 3) - Yes Bulletin 150308 | SUSE