IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B)

IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B)
Network Server
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation

10 Mar 2011
134779

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
The IBM® Power 720 Express provides a technology foundation with proven reliability and security for the small or midsized company seeking a complete, integrated business system to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to your customers, helping 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:	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 using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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 ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 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: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141625

Adapters and Drivers


Intel Integrated 82571EB (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 453608
	Checksum: 9a02e1ef98251dfbd8017adee4b12b6e

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:

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara , CA 95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hds.com

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IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) - Yes Bulletin 134779 | SUSE