ThinkSystem SR635 V3 (7D9G, EPYC 9004)

ThinkSystem SR635 V3 (7D9G, EPYC 9004)
Network Server
IBM

11 Aug 2023
152571

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	03
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: KAE111N - v2.10 (06/06/2023)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 9754 2.25 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 540-16i PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Lenovo ThinkSystem 2.5-inch S4520 960GB Read Intensive SATA 6Gb NHS SSD
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.1-150400.86.3

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: separate RAID 0 drives. Each VM guest was installed on its own individual drive.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=174M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP1 guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 50790
	Checksum: 5c76baec83b61418041090c658eda587

Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 302766
	Checksum: 519dd9e65b4ac2ba9fc7b0eabadc10bc

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 540-16i PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 17-May-2023	Driver Size: 120601
	Checksum: 9c1116254d37d1f8b31e5a02038f86bf
	Driver Version: 07.719.03.00-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
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ThinkSystem SR635 V3 (7D9G, EPYC 9004) - Yes Bulletin 152571 | SUSE