PowerEdge T560

PowerEdge T560
Network Server
Lenovo

05 Feb 2024
153097

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 2.0.0 (11/23/2023)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Gold 6526Y Processor 2.80 GHz
RAM:	1.5 TB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Dell 15.36TB Enterprise NVMe Read Intensive AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with Carrier
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.8.1-150400.88.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=221M,high crashkernel=182M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: single RAID 0 device. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146629

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-Jul-2023	Driver Size: 42279
	Checksum: bd794e04ff80babf16ec741d013e9e96

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-Jul-2023	Driver Size: 115292
	Checksum: 50b95b397e28076ecba7171bb8ec6540

Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpi3mr.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 11-Jul-2023	Driver Size: 88748
	Checksum: f8996f2dec9c721740d825bc1d580463
	Driver Version: 8.0.0.69.0

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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PowerEdge T560 - Yes Bulletin 153097 | SUSE