System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)

System x3550 M5 (8869/E5-2600 v4)
Network Server
Lenovo

24 Sep 2021
150858

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TBE148A - v3.30 (10/26/2020)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697A v4 2.60 GHz
RAM:	Host: 96 GB, multiple VMs: 16 GB each, single max VM: 64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM SATA DEVICE 81Y3680 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.1-38.2

Config Notes

A 250Gb hard drive was added for YES Certification testing. The base model is diskless.
Additional configuration is needed to configure the internal displays speakers to function as desired. There is an audio.py python script that is required to set various HW registers to reconfigured the audio outputs.
The BIOS setting to enable S3 Video Repost must be set to avoid dimming on S3 resume.
Power management: System/Processor does not support throttling.
The OS was installed via an external USB CD/DVD drive.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 12560
	Checksum: 307ec2e0d10ef89edb1a546922121620

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 80556
	Checksum: 5559de3cb848a69c9255dc3e041106f0

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 11328
	Checksum: 9a8af08a34ab679384cd355d8590de4c

IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 68420
	Checksum: cdc7bfa63964ba2caa52b643881b6a11

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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