ThinkSystem SD650-I V3 (7D7L, Xeon SP Gen 5)

ThinkSystem SD650-I V3 (7D7L, Xeon SP Gen 5)
Network Server
IBM

04 Nov 2025
154699

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	06
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: USE137E-8.20 (04/29/2025)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8592+ Processor 1.90 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2600
Host Bus Adapter:	Lenovo ThinkSystem 7450 PRO Read Intensive NVMe PCIe 4.0
Hard Disk Drive:	Micron Technology, Inc. 7450 PRO SSD with NVMe, E1.S, 3.84TB, PCIe Gen4 (MTFDKBZ3T8TFR)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 10.0.0-150700.123.6

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8525 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 (M1115) and RAID 0 (H1110).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Network: System uses one of the Intel I350-AM4 quad-port network adapter ports for the dedicated Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) connection. Leaving three network ports available for the standard user network.
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).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141011

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2600
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Jul-2025	Driver Size: 55604
	Checksum: a460627d8d33a57195c6fddb2163bf41
	Driver Version: 4E046C6BBE9E4A29F2DECB0

Mellanox® ConnectX-4 Lx MCX4421A-ACAN (Dual Port) 25GB/s
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Jul-2025	Driver Size: 1493070
	Checksum: 3baff9968d0300ae5c283cbe4542d488
	Driver Version: 595265E74834550B3C47191

Lenovo ThinkSystem 7450 PRO Read Intensive NVMe PCIe 4.0
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 21-Jul-2025	Driver Size: 47891
	Checksum: ecdc5911ceba68483fde11daff418165
	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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