PowerEdge R570

PowerEdge R570
Network Server
IBM

11 Sep 2025
154297

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

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 6 for SUSE SLES 15	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 1.4.3 (06/26/2025)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® 6787P Processor
RAM:	4096 GB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eW3
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Toshiba AL15SE Series, 2.5 HDD, 2.4 TB, SAS (AL15SEB24EQY)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.1.0-150500.110.2

Config Notes

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 the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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).
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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.

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 PERC 12 H965i Front controller, NVME and SAS
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpi3mr.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 153235
	Checksum: 9105a03642834c8a0b0c57a2f5b15aa0
	Driver Version: 8.5.1.0.0

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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PowerEdge R570 - Yes Bulletin 154297 | SUSE