IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L)

IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L)
Network Server
Lenovo

11 Sep 2015
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Linux servers optimized for scale out data and cloud environments

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	24 IBM POWER8 3.02 GHz
RAM:	176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	5 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP5 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP5 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Referenced Bulletins
152695

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 295567
	Checksum: eeb2b915b992f930d874697d247b3b11
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 221527
	Checksum: a3c9af9381086229aa0eb35f1efcede9
	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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L) - Yes Bulletin 143604 | SUSE