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 | IBM Power 550 Express (8204-E8A)
Network Server
IBM | 07 Jul 2010
132936 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™
Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
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
- **NOTE**: The OS was installed as a preload image containing updated drivers not included in the original SLED 11 SP3 release. System start-up documentation includes instructions to create a DVD copy of the image for use in system restore.
- Power management: Sleep / Suspend to RAM / ACPI S3 is NOT supported on this system.
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Referenced Bulletins
140556
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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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