IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA)

IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA)
Network Server
IBM

02 Sep 2010
133522

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Equipped with 4.2 GHz IBM POWER6™ processors, the Power 595 server can be deployed in 8- to 64-core, multiprocessing (SMP) configurations. With 92 GB of bufferd DDR2 memory and extensive I/O support, the Power 595 server can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address the changing needs of today's data-center. With advanced PowerVM™ virtualization, EnergyScale™ technology, and Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the Power 595 helps business take control of their IT infrastructure and confidently consolidate multiple applications for Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise operating systems on a single system. With the Power 595 server, you have freedom to choose the operating system environment and applications to best fit business needs and have the confidence that the system will be ready to handle future requirements as well.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	64 IBM POWER6™ 4.2 GHz
RAM:	92 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
Host Bus Adapter:	2 LSI Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 73GB 15K Ultra320 SCSI Hot-Swap SL HDD , SCSI IBM 146 GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
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.
SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso 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: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 527 was installed on the host during certification testing. VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.

Adapters and Drivers


2 LSI Logic 53c1010 66MHz Ultra3 SCSI Adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sym53c8xx.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 150432
	Checksum: 7423aa5738637c510cbfe11ec3209a5e

2 Intel Integrated 82546 GB
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 262800
	Checksum: 5dfb7f7c25a655112455c8dda133ec54

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IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) - Yes Bulletin 133522 | SUSE