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| IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)
Network Server
IBM | 10 Feb 2017
145462 |
SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified with the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
POWER8 Enterprise-Class Server that's been designed to support the most mission-critical applications.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
CPU: | 192 IBM
POWER8 4.02 GHz |
RAM: | 32768 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 32 PCI Express X16 |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4)
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
Ultrastar SSD1600MM SAS SSD - HUSMM1680ASS201
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.6.0-44.1 |
Config Notes
- Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
- Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462. Kdump (SLES11SP4): the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=16384M-:8192M for kdump during certification testing.
- Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
- Maintenance updates: The following updates are required to the Kernel (12869), Kexec-tools (12962) and Kdump (12411). https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=abdTREGeaIw~
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=s5MyAyB4ZRQ
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=yjNH0ugcd_E~
- Kernel-bigmem for SAP HANA environments on ppc64: Kernel-bigmem is required to be run on a system with more than 1024 logical CPU threads, which in this case IBM Power System E880 was configured with 192 physical CPU core with SMT8 resulting 1536 logical CPU threads. Also, ppc64 systems with more than 1.5TB of main memory; for specific support, configuration and memory requirements please read the following knowledge base web link. https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=7018408.
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Adapters and Drivers
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Broadcom®
BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 06-Nov-2016 | Driver Size: 295591 |
| Checksum: 8447315653ad770ea42e3c9a4e15e636 |
| Driver Version: 3.137 |
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IBM
PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4) |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko |
| Driver Date: 06-Nov-2016 | Driver Size: 222023 |
| Checksum: 99c4b05a72b2d278fe2982c48ae657f3 |
| Driver Version: 2.6.0 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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