IBM Power System S824L (8247-24L) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S824L (8247-24L) with PowerKVM
Network Server
New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.

14 Feb 2016
144091

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 7 for SUSE® SLES 15

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
Boosts workload performance by offloading highly parallel operations to GPU accelerator(s)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	24 IBM POWER8 3.52 GHz
RAM:	Total Host Memory: 256 GB, Multi-VM tested memory: 50 GB each, Max VM tested memory: 200 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 7 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Virtio Block Device , virtio IBM ibmvscsi , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM Virtio Disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	IBM QEMU DVD-ROM , virtio
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP2 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Install: System installed using the BladeCenter chassis DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
140480

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:

New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
466 Changhe Road
Binjiang District
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
CHINA

561233

IBM Power System S824L (8247-24L) with PowerKVM - Yes Bulletin 144091 | SUSE