IBM Power System E850 (8408-E8E)

IBM Power System E850 (8408-E8E)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

05 Aug 2019
148536

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Product Description
A very agile 4-socket system in the marketplace, optimized for performance, reliability and expansion.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	48 IBM POWER8 3.02 GHz
RAM:	1024 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe 3Gb SAS Adapter (57B3) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	12 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

256 CPUs require ESXi 6.7 U2 or higher update level.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP4 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 256 CPUs and 6128 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 12 SP4 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_12.html

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 311280
	Checksum: 9ee4beb45b5fe1dbdefdb4fa2b20b1d9
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe 3Gb SAS Adapter (57B3)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 268664
	Checksum: 120d1cacfe9404ae21d73a29fd6a70a5
	Driver Version: 2.6.4

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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