IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)

IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)
Network Server
SGI

08 Jun 2015
143269

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
POWER8 enterprise-class server that's been designed to support the most mission-critical applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	192 IBM POWER8 4.02 GHz
RAM:	1920 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	32 PCI Express X16
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	5 Seagate® ST9146853SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) 5 Hitachi GST HUC109030CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update slessp3-xen-201310-8479 (bnc#836239) is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8".
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
6) 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.htm
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
141546

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 312319
	Checksum: 39d6565eaa72f499bb7fdd60a184b106
	Driver Version: 3.136

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 249775
	Checksum: 34c2059b0be7ccca9b80e78e8c7818e9
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

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:

SGI
46600 Landing Parkway
Fremont , CA 94538
Voice: 650-960-1980
Website: http://www.sgi.com

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