IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L)

IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L)
Network Server
Cisco Systems, Inc.

15 Apr 2016
144453

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

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

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	24 IBM POWER8 3.42 GHz
RAM:	160 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16 7 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC101212CSS600 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM slim line DVD - RMBO0140532 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Requires ESXi 5.0 U2 or higher update level.
VMware Tools information can be found at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340 and http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 11 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
Installation of VMware Tools is recommended to enhance performance and improve management of virtual machines. VMware Tools for SUSE® Linux Enterprise are available as an ISO (TAR Format with perl installer) bundled with vSphere.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html .
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest.
7) Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 virtual machine configured with up to 32 CPUs.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 313559
	Checksum: dcc50bbd7989a3e4b4add2a53ed57924
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 260999
	Checksum: ee8e2246a9629a222ccc05805e41e216
	Driver Version: 2.6.2

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:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose , CA 95134
Voice: (408) 526-4000
Toll Free: (800) 553-NETS or (800) 553-6387
Website: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/servers-unified-computing/unified-computing-system/products-technical-reference-list.html

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