IBM Power 710 Server Express (8231-E2B)

IBM Power 710 Server Express (8231-E2B)
Network Server
Lenovo

15 Feb 2011
134669

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Product Description
The Power 710 Express is a high performance, easy-to-own, energy efficient, elegantly simple and reliable server. The Power 710 Express server is fueled by the performance of the POWER7 processor with a choice of Novell® SUSE® LINUX Enterprise operating system and solutions from thousand of ISVs that can set your business apart from the competition. Built on the performance of the POWER7 processor, the Power 710 Express is a one-socket server that supports up to eight POWER7 cores in a dense, rack-optimized form factor. As a high-performance infrastructure or application server, the Power 710 Express contains innovative workload-optimizing technologies that improve performance based on client computing needs and Intelligent Energy features that help increase performance and optimize energy efficiency resulting in a cost-efficient solution for Novell® SUSE® LINUX Enterprise deployments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	4 IBM POWER7™ 3.0 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST973402SS , 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 installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 (M1115) and RAID 0 (H1110).
Network: System uses one of the Intel I350-AM4 quad-port network adapter ports for the dedicated Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) connection. Leaving three network ports available for the standard user network.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 x86_64 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) adapters was used in this 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.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
142056

Adapters and Drivers


2 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 127664
	Checksum: ea6c273556004e8cf873bb1184c3e4d7

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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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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IBM Power 710 Server Express (8231-E2B) - Yes Bulletin 134669 | SUSE