NS3160A6

NS3160A6
Network Server
Lenovo

02 Nov 2023
152877

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:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1.0
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 3.05.00 (08/04/2021)
CPU:	AMD EPYC™ 7713 2.00 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2500
Host Bus Adapter:	AMD EPYC™ 7713 Integrated FCH SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD D3-S4510 Series, 1.92 TB, 2.5in, SATA 6Gb/s, (SSDSC2KB019T8) , Serial ATA (SATA)
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).
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.
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
141518

Adapters and Drivers


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

Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 828248
	Checksum: fca60438f013636335cdf07c894451f0
	Driver Version: 2.8.20-k

AMD EPYC™ 7713 Integrated FCH SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Jun-2020	Driver Size: 81200
	Checksum: 6c62cb81fb973cf2e6ed7d35c964be09
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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NS3160A6 - Yes Bulletin 152877 | SUSE