IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)

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

17 Jul 2015
143426

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:	128 IBM POWER8 4.35 GHz
RAM:	512 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 Hitachi GST HUC109030CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS) 5 Seagate® ST9146853SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-27.1

Config Notes

The i40e used during testing is not SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the following driver package: i40e-2.0.19.tar.gz. This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/i40e%20stable/2.0.19/. Then run the following commands 1) tar -zxvf i40e-2.0.19.tar.gz 2) cd i40e-2.0.19/src 3) make install 4) reboot.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=256M,high crashkernel=128M,low using YaST.

Referenced Bulletins
146195

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 295567
	Checksum: f1703509af3d9e07b995f5a1bb809ae3
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 18-May-2015	Driver Size: 221527
	Checksum: cf4693eb5a70aa558e385c02de4232af
	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:

IBM
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IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE) - Yes Bulletin 143426 | SUSE