PowerEdge T550

PowerEdge T550
Network Server
IBM

28 Oct 2021
151024

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.3.8 (08/31/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6338 Processor 2.00 GHz
RAM:	1 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC H755 Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C621 Chipset , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Exos X16, 12TB, SATA, (ST12000NM005G) , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	LG GU90N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 hardware itself .
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kdump (SLE12SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=1024M,high crashkernel=142M,low using YaST.
PTF update: SLES 12 SP4 kernel PTF suse_installer_update-sle12sp4-ppc64le-1.0.iso is required and was installed during certification testing. The PTF can be downloaded from: https://drivers.suse.com/suse/installer-update/sle-12-sp4-ppc64le/1.0/install-readme.html

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 12560
	Checksum: 307ec2e0d10ef89edb1a546922121620

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 80556
	Checksum: 5559de3cb848a69c9255dc3e041106f0

Dell PERC H755 Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 68420
	Checksum: cdc7bfa63964ba2caa52b643881b6a11

Intel C621 Chipset
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 06-May-2021	Driver Size: 11328
	Checksum: 9a8af08a34ab679384cd355d8590de4c

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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PowerEdge T550 - Yes Bulletin 151024 | SUSE