PowerEdge XE7740

PowerEdge XE7740
Network Server
IBM

16 Jul 2025
154221

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.2.2 (06/01/2025)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® 6787P Processor
RAM:	4096 GB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Dell devices
Hard Disk Drive:	Dell CM7, E3.S, MU, NVMe, 3.2TB (9EF0A00Q04S3) , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.1.0-150500.110.2

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP7 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP7 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eW3
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 36038
	Checksum: 0b61a60a0e0ad17758de6d7c15490de4

Broadcom® NetXtreme E-Series BCM57412 10GbE PCIe 3.0 Ethernet Controller (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnxt_en.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 251782
	Checksum: c9b798a2e97bdea00a55d48040e1379a

Dell Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Dell devices
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 43741
	Checksum: 1247b1054101dde0910e09fe6dbfa39d
	Driver Version: 1.0

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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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