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| IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L) with PowerKVM
Network Server
IBM | 30 Mar 2016
144278 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| 3
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
Linux server optimized for scale out data and cloud environments.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Virtual Machine |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
| CPU: | 20 IBM
POWER8 3.42 GHz |
| RAM: | Total Host memory: 190 GB; Max VM tested with 150 GB; Multi-VM tested with 40 GB per VM |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 5 PCI Express X8
4 PCI Express X16
2 USB Ports |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ibmvscsi
, virtio
IBM
Virtio Block Device
, 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
- SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.
- Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0.
- Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=121M,high crashkernel=92M,low using YaST.
- VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP4 and SLES 12 SP2 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| IBM
Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: virtio_net.ko |
| | Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 41327 |
| | Checksum: 9ff031a6540df5eccec18982f3b21988 |
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| 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 |
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| IBM
Virtio Block Device |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko |
| | Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 23911 |
| | Checksum: 96ca52fec3576db7cb7220015a13de0c |
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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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