ThinkServer SR668 V2

ThinkServer SR668 V2
Network Server
IBM

14 Dec 2021
151168

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Product Description
For more informaiton, please visit www.lenovo.com

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	SC57A85715
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: XWE102J-00.00 (08/18/2021)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8380 Processor 2.30 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-16i PCIe 12Gb 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 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141557

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2500
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 107136
	Checksum: f354aa27a39755237c956d102a02ea99

Lenovo ThinkSystem Intel I350 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 496728
	Checksum: bbf398d0be838fc838a89ffa888d4513
	Driver Version: 5.6.0-k

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 530-16i PCIe 12Gb Adapter
	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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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ThinkServer SR668 V2 - Yes Bulletin 151168 | SUSE