IBM Power 740 Express Server (8205-E6B)

IBM Power 740 Express Server (8205-E6B)
Network Server
IBM

22 Jun 2012
137761

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
IBM Power 740 Express Server (8205-E6B)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	12 IBM POWER7™ 3.30 GHz
RAM:	7 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 3 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Hitachi Data Systems HUC101414CSS300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: two M.2 boot drives configured as RAID 1, two HDD configured as RAID 0.

Adapters and Drivers


Intel PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 487008
	Checksum: 6b11eba6b08821d3b964df4ed15812e9

IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 197072
	Checksum: 1a807fcf1410d36437e45fd8a0e06c08

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

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IBM Power 740 Express Server (8205-E6B) - Yes Bulletin 137761 | SUSE