ThinkSystem SR655 V3 (7D9E, EPYC 9004)

ThinkSystem SR655 V3 (7D9E, EPYC 9004)
Network Server
IBM

19 Apr 2023
152043

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for IBM Power

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 5 for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12
Windows Server 2022
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	Ver. 03
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: KAE109K - v1.41 (03/23/2023)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 9654 2.40 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Intel NVMe Datacenter SSD (3DNAND, Sentinel Rock Controller)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Intel SSDPF2KX019T1O Hard Drive 1.92TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe U.2
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.0-150400.74.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is 2 CPU socket configuration with 20 core dual chip module per socket, totalling 40 cores. The Power10 3.9 GHz (Max) DCM CPUs tested each have 20 cores and with SMT8 totalling 320 vCPU threads.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on Power10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the Power10 hardware itself.

Referenced Bulletins
154367

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 104054
	Checksum: 1e77d5a9e953a8b24e1d74073e999787

2 Intel NVMe Datacenter SSD (3DNAND, Sentinel Rock Controller)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 28943
	Checksum: a459b5d1051d7d147e095d396185ea0a
	Driver Version: 1.0

ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 31130
	Checksum: 734c0cf8a6d7d153f61372e89322ca39

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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ThinkSystem SR655 V3 (7D9E, EPYC 9004) - Yes Bulletin 152043 | SUSE