IBM Power System S812LC (8348-21C) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S812LC (8348-21C) with PowerKVM
Network Server
IBM

21 Jan 2016
144041

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Big data servers from IBM deliver high performance and throughput for spark and Hadoop workloads on Linux

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	10 IBM POWER8 2.92 GHz
RAM:	Total Host Memory: 512 GB, Multi-VM Tested Memory: 100 GB each, Max VM Tested Memory: 400 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Virtio Block Device , virtio IBM ibmvscsi , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM QEMU Virtual Hard Disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	IBM QEMU DVD-ROM , virtio
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: PXE boot, OS installed via network.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP5 FV guest. One of the integrated Intel Ethernet Network Adapter X710-T4L adapters was used in this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 15 SP5 kernel update (5.14.21-150500.55.7-default) is required and was installed during YES Certification testing. The kernel update is available from SUSE SCC at https://scc.suse.com/packages/23840987

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 41327
	Checksum: 9ff031a6540df5eccec18982f3b21988

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 23911
	Checksum: 96ca52fec3576db7cb7220015a13de0c

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsic.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 61823
	Checksum: ed1cb6f2d114942bc9d3209b9ec5fc63
	Driver Version: 1.5.9

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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