LT Sample system setup¶

Introduction¶

BIOS / UEFI, BMC and all other firmware versions and revisions shall have the latest good compatible software versions as specified by the manufacturers of each component. All tests shall be performed with the required RHEL 9.5 installation.

BIOS settings¶

Load the default BIOS settings and setup the following ones (where applicable) as described below:

BIOS setting	Value
Hyperthreading/symmetric multi-threading	Enabled
Turbo mode	Enabled
Active CPU cores	All
Hardware prefetcher	Enabled
Adjacent cache line prefetch	Enabled
NUMA	Enabled
Virtualization (CPU and IO)	Enabled
PXE on first 10GbE interface	Enabled
Quick boot, quiet boot and summary screen	Disabled
Restore after AC power loss	Power on
Plug and Play OS	Enabled
PERR and SERR	Enabled
Boot device priority	PXE, internal local storage (first NVMe)
Boot retry	Enabled

BMC configuration¶

The BMC shall be configured to use the dedicated IPMI network port using DHCP. The Product Asset Tag field in the FRU shall contain DOWIN (please note the missing dash) as a value and the Product Serial Number one shall contain the serial number of the server.

Filesystem layout¶

All partitions on SSDs shall be aligned and the filesystem mounted with TRIM command support. The operating system shall be installed on the first system solid-state drive.

The filesystem layout shall be

Partition	Mounted on	Partition type	Filesystem type	Size
/dev/nvme0n1p1	/	Linux	xfs	150GB
/dev/nvme0n1p2	/var	Linux	xfs	50GB
/dev/nvme0n1p3	/pool	Linux	xfs	remaining space available