PowerEdge R650

PowerEdge R650
Network Server
Supermicro Computer

16 Jul 2021
150536

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.2.4 (05/28/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8380 Processor 2.30 GHz
RAM:	4 TB
Persistent Memory:	8 TB, 16 Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 Series 512 GB Modules
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H755 front SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	9 Toshiba AL15SE Series, 2.4 TB, 2.5-inch, SAS 12Gbps, 10.5k rpm, 512e (AL15SEB24EQ) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.5.0-29.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device two disk RAID 1.
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.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
146044

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 82584
	Checksum: f4565df412097c9a985a175aae408518

Intel Ethernet Network Adapter X710-T4L (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 828248
	Checksum: fca60438f013636335cdf07c894451f0
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 327944
	Checksum: 66da90edfc8f437ccc9dd3572911dc80
	Driver Version: 3.137

Dell PERC H755 front SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 307352
	Checksum: 6a8ab28719545a1f0f5b94fb61320d48
	Driver Version: 07.713.01.00-rc1

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:

Supermicro Computer
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose , CA 95131
Website: https://www.supermicro.com/

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PowerEdge R650 - Yes Bulletin 150536 | SUSE