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 | IBM Power 550 Express (8204-E8A)
Network Server
Supermicro Computer | 07 Jul 2010
132936 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15 |
Product Description
The IBM Power™ 550 Express delivers the outstanding performance of the POWER6™ processor. The performance and virtualization capabilities of the Power 550 Express make it an ideal system as a mid-size database or application server. The Power 550 delivers the performance to run applications faster and more efficiently, which can result in business advantages.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | EL340_061 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
| CPU: | 2 IBM
POWER6™ 5.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 15 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 PCI Express X8 2 64-bit/266Mhz PCI-X V2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate®
ST3300655SS Cheetah 15K.5
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | IBM
SATA DVD-ROM Drive (Slim) / DROM0020581
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- KVM: SLE11SP1 maint kernel 20100722 was installed in SLE11SP1 guests to provide updated virtio_net drivers.
- KVM: SLE10SP3 guest was configured with e1000 virtual nics.
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Referenced Bulletins
133698
Adapters and Drivers
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| 4 IBM
Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ehea.ko |
| | Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 127664 |
| | Checksum: ea6c273556004e8cf873bb1184c3e4d7 |
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| IBM
PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko |
| | Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 174408 |
| | Checksum: a0fe11bae1391c9585b735b2ef4e4ad9 |
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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:
Supermicro Computer
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose
, CA
95131
Website: https://www.supermicro.com/
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