NS5170-M7-C0-R0-00

NS5170-M7-C0-R0-00
Network Server
IBM

02 Nov 2023
152885

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 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: 05.01.00 (04/20/2023)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8490H Processor 1.90 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® LSI MegaRAID 9560-8i , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Intel SSD D3-S4610 Series, 3.84TB, 2.5in SATA (SSDSC2KG038T8) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.1-52.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters 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
141556

Adapters and Drivers


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

Inspur Ethernet Network Adapter X710-BM2 OCP3.0 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 249651
	Checksum: ff718cab6289f2f9fa5bdb783b0ec335

Broadcom® LSI MegaRAID 9560-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-May-2022	Driver Size: 91281
	Checksum: 73fe8023764e189c76be50188530b557
	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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NS5170-M7-C0-R0-00 - Yes Bulletin 152885 | SUSE