IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)

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

08 Jun 2015
143269

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD single disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device configured with two SSDs in RAID 1. The "Device model" selected for the SLES guest virtual network adapter during testing was e1000, instead of the default virtio.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 15 FV guest. One of the Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=236M,high crashkernel=132M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
146780

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/

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IBM
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IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE) - Yes Bulletin 143269 | SUSE