IBM Power 710 Server Express (8231-E2B)

IBM Power 710 Server Express (8231-E2B)
Network Server
Netweb Technologies India Ltd.

16 Feb 2011
134672

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

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 the 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:	8 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

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER10 hardware itself.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is a 4 node configuration with 4 sockets per node, totaling 16 CPU sockets. The POWER10 4.0 GHz CPUs tested each have 15 cores and SMT 8. Totaling for the system 240 cores and 1920 threads.

Adapters and Drivers


4 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ehea.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 148528
	Checksum: f9357ba553e1f589102b09fda6a9daa8

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 171096
	Checksum: ea1a2d5758f505ec58a9609628bb60ed

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:

Netweb Technologies India Ltd.
Plot H1, Pocket-9, Faridabad Industrial Town
Sector-57, Ballabhgarh
Faridabad, Haryana 121004
INDIA
Voice: +91-129-2310400
Fax: +91-129-2310470
Website: www.netwebindia.com

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