ThinkSystem ST650 V2 (7Z74, Xeon SP Gen 3)

ThinkSystem ST650 V2 (7Z74, Xeon SP Gen 3)
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Jun 2022
151428

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: U8E115M - v1.21 (02/16/2022)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8352V Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Persistent Memory:	1TB, 8 Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 Series 128GB Modules
Video Adapter:	Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch 600GB 10K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512n HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.0-18.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 527 was installed on the host during certification testing.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10. The FV SLES guests were tested with 16 VCPUs each.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Broadcom BCM5720 GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox Graphics Inc. G200 SE A (PCI)
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 25-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 18001
	Checksum: 410a79ab2baa3f7b8faf8e136eb69242

Broadcom® NetXtreme® E-Series BCM57416 10GBASE-T PCIe 3.0 Ethernet Controller (Dual-Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 25-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 170206
	Checksum: 0691b7b9b5bdb774b8a7070f4a5f9d8c

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 25-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 91321
	Checksum: f2122a1646fdcf2fc056383eeaaa8eb0
	Driver Version: 07.719.03.00-rc1

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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ThinkSystem ST650 V2 (7Z74, Xeon SP Gen 3) - Yes Bulletin 151428 | SUSE