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

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

25 May 2021
150316

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 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/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/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.

Referenced Bulletins
141541

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 18-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 90480
	Checksum: 9877d59ad7917aeff72c31d506307e47
	Driver Version: 1.19.6

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 18-Oct-2019	Driver Size: 12525232
	Checksum: eb395f64921450dd329a614003936afd

Mellanox® Integrated MT27710 ConnectX®-4 Lx EN (Dual Port) 25GbE & 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 1450960
	Checksum: 49b32ebdca92947eb50c303ab07a6bd2
	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 150316 | SUSE