IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L) with pKVM

IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L) with pKVM
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

06 Mar 2016
144146

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension

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:	7 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ibmvscsi , virtio IBM Virtio Block Device , 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

Graphics: Video driver used in testing was downloaded from http://www.hp.com/support/workstations. Video driver is not SolidDriver-compliant and requires installation of kernel source and development tools.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Power management: Hibernation/Suspend to Disk/ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.

Referenced Bulletins
142825

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 60727
	Checksum: cd5b48b3ba94736aab36a320598af546

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 67759
	Checksum: aab41fa4d857a57540c3fe4f1736e2c8
	Driver Version: 1.5.9

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Oct-2014	Driver Size: 34791
	Checksum: 097521391f6aeed71588833275ecf35f

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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IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L) with pKVM - Yes Bulletin 144146 | SUSE