IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B)

IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B)
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

17 Sep 2010
133606

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The Power 720 Express with IBM provides a technology foundation with reliability and security for the small or midsized companies seeking a complete, integrated business system to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to your customers, improving productivity and keeping data secure. IBM integrates features to simplify your IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that can grow with a business and the Power 720 delivers the performance and capacity to run new and existing core business applications on a single server, to greatly integrate and simplify your IT environment.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	8 IBM POWER7™ 3.0 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 64-bit PCI-X/133 MHz Hot Plug
Host Bus Adapter:	2 IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST9146802SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) Seagate® ST973451SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was insstatus.tsfstatus.tsftalled using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in 100 percent AppDirect Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP4 guest. One of the Broadcom® NetXtreme® E-Series BCM57416 10GBASE-T PCIe 3.0 Ethernet Controller adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
152185

Adapters and Drivers


2 Intel Integrated 82571EB (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 366872
	Checksum: 07a117e8f94c4dccd7fdbedab5681a8a

2 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

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:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring , TX 77389

608854

IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) - Yes Bulletin 133606 | SUSE