Compute Scale-up Server 3250

Compute Scale-up Server 3250
Network Server
Lenovo

06 Nov 2025
154735

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 is the newest model in the HPE Compute Scale-up family of servers. This highly reliable, scalable and secure server starts at 4 and scales up to 8 powerful 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, in 4 socket increments. Its modular architecture scales cost-efficiently to meet your data growth needs. To support growth of in-memory databases and data-intensive workloads, HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 offers large, shared memory capacity ranging from 256 GB to 32 TB. It utilizes ultra-fast DDR5 DIMMs with 16 DIMM slots per processor, delivering twice the memory bandwidth compared to prior generations. Its flexible I/O subsystem, based on PCIe5.0, delivers 4x I/O bandwidth compared to prior models Extreme RAS including advanced memory resiliency, "firmware first", analysis engine, and auto self-healing ensures the highest reliability for mission critical apps. Superior security, including HPE Silicon Root of Trust and TPM modules, protects you

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Super Server
Mother Board Revision:	S4S70A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: Bundle:0.0.236-20251013_082156 SFW:010.000.114.000.2510100240 (10/10/2025)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® 6788P Processor
RAM:	32 TB
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH5
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device:	HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.2.0-150600.117.4

Config Notes

Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. The system also has one internal USB port. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 x86_64 guests. One of the embedded IBM Dual-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
Host network bridging was disabled during certification testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH5
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 02-May-2025	Driver Size: 36346
	Checksum: 2474a653c4fa6de20997dbf6e7f302c3
	Driver Version: 1A84815F4FD3BED7E02EA52

HPE SN1700E 64Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: qla2xxx.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 02-May-2025	Driver Size: 635427
	Checksum:

Intel E810 Ethernet 10/25GbE 2P SFP28 Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ice.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 13-May-2025	Driver Size: 652715
	Checksum: 5aa585deb41d19f608b731b14d25b0f2
	Driver Version: 815EB5B93F820917B08024F

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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Compute Scale-up Server 3250 - Yes Bulletin 154735 | SUSE