IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L) with PowerKVM
Network Server
Acer, Inc.

30 Mar 2016
144278

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10

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
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

kISO Install: System was installed using the kISO ibmbe2netv2.iso. This kISO is required as an initial boot media to start the standard install process. The kISO can be downloaded from: http://http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/IBM/sle10sp4/sle10sp4be2netkiso/. One of the required updates in the kISO is the be2net network driver, this driver is PLDP compliant.
Kdump: During the install using the ibmbe2netv2.iso kISO the following three modules must also be installed: kdump, kernel-kdump and kexec-tools. This is required to update the be2net driver to function with kdump.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5 with hot-spare.

Referenced Bulletins
137978

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

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

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:

Acer, Inc.
8F, No. 88, Sec. 1
Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsi Chih
Taipei Hsien 221
TAIWAN R.O.C.

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IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L) with PowerKVM - Yes Bulletin 144278 | SUSE