ThinkSystem SR950 (7X12, Xeon SP Gen 1)

ThinkSystem SR950 (7X12, Xeon SP Gen 1)
Network Server
Intel Corporation

22 Jun 2021
150389

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: PSE135J - v2.10 (02/05/2021)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 7 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 300GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® Enterprise Performance 10K HDD, SAS, 900GB (ST900MM0168) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=153M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
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-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Apr-2021	Driver Size: 107144
	Checksum: b3854d6303e2efc922b10b2c6c6efe7c

	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: swrast_dri.so
	Driver Date: 20-Feb-2021	Driver Size: 21788696
	Checksum: 38c4a31963eaa9f3b48ec115742967a5

Intel Ethernet Connection X722 (Dual-Port) for 1GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 175616
	Checksum: 0b3c528d2721724cb5e68abc90bf65ec

Lenovo ThinkSystem X710-DA2 PCIe 10Gb 2-Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 175616
	Checksum: 0b3c528d2721724cb5e68abc90bf65ec

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 68420
	Checksum: cdc7bfa63964ba2caa52b643881b6a11

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:

Intel Corporation
Columbia Design Center
100 Center Point Circle, Suite 200
Columbia , SC 29210
Voice: 803-216-2100
Website: www.intel.com

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ThinkSystem SR950 (7X12, Xeon SP Gen 1) - Yes Bulletin 150389 | SUSE