IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB)

IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB)
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

26 Feb 2010
131392

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 1

Product Description
Designed for virtualized consolidation of business-critical workloads, the IBM Power® 770 delivers on performance, availability, efficiency and virtualization in a way that is unique in the industry. PowerVM™ virtualization enables continuous, dynamic resource adjustments across all partitions and operating environments, independent of physical placement, to optimize performance while minimizing energy usage. Supported environments include AIX®, IBM i, Linux® for Power and x86 Linux applications, all on the same system.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	ZM710_051
CPU:	6 IBM POWER7™ 3.50 GHz
RAM:	15 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	2 IBM PCIe 3Gb SAS Adapter (57B3) , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9146852SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM RMBO0040502 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
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).
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 an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141556

Adapters and Drivers


4 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 121264
	Checksum: 4b90801db2e326b4f65a602171c479ec

Intel PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 309496
	Checksum: 339d81e3cfc58bcafa7422dee1b9a5b3

2 IBM PCIe 3Gb SAS Adapter (57B3)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 162272
	Checksum: cf22c58e5c2f91fdd2e9242ab643a6bf

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 162272
	Checksum: cf22c58e5c2f91fdd2e9242ab643a6bf

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:

Oracle America Inc.
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) - Yes Bulletin 131392 | SUSE