IBM Power System S812L (8247-21L) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S812L (8247-21L) with PowerKVM
Network Server
Intel Corporation

10 Apr 2016
144427

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Linux server optimizes for scale out data and cloud environments.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	10 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:	4 PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16 2 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: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 60815
	Checksum: 1315b0f70a097969f015d8d718a78426

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 34951
	Checksum: 6fb4445448118b15a91696c31a08b742

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 67791
	Checksum: 84dd6f43b9d9db80849692bd4b9f29ea
	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:

Intel Corporation
Columbia Design Center
100 Center Point Circle, Suite 200
Columbia , SC 29210
Voice: 803-216-2100
Website: www.intel.com

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