ThinkSystem SN550 V2 (7Z69, Xeon SP Gen 3)

ThinkSystem SN550 V2 (7Z69, Xeon SP Gen 3)
Network Server
IBM

25 May 2021
150318

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):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
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:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U8E109P-1.01 (04/08/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8352V Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host: 512 GB, multiple VMs: 64 GB each, single max VM: 448 GB
Persistent Memory:	1TB, 8 Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 Series 128GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch PM1643 3.84TB Capacity SAS 12Gb Hot Swap SSD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
SUSE SolidDriver Compliant: The be2net network driver used during testing was installed from a kmp rpm contained on the following driver update disk (DUD): elx-be2net_10.0.727.54-be2iscsi_10.0.727.62-lpfc_10.0.727.20-sles11sp3-1.iso, kmp rpm file name: elx-be2net-kmp-xen-10.0.727.54_3.0.76_0.11-1.1.x86_64.rpm. This kmp rpm should be downloaded and installed after the SLES Xen install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Emulex/sle11sp3/common/DUD/dud_lpfc_10.0.727.20_be2net_10.0.727.54_be2iscsi_10.0.727.62/ and extract from the iso image.
Kdump: Crash kernel dump and capture does not function properly on this system due to the Emulex network adapter, and is therefore not supported.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141248

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

Lenovo CN4052 2-port 10Gb Virtual Fabric Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 299872
	Checksum: 5ca13860869332a0dac7b5398edbf1de
	Driver Version: 12.0.0.0

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-4i Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 09-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 309256
	Checksum: a649376d8c32760e3d73ee1c44058ef7
	Driver Version: 07.707.51.00-rc1

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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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ThinkSystem SN550 V2 (7Z69, Xeon SP Gen 3) - Yes Bulletin 150318 | SUSE