IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A)

IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A)
Network Server
Lenovo

19 Jul 2016
144840

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
Scale-out appalication server for infrastructure built on open technology

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	20 IBM POWER8 3.42 GHz
RAM:	176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM slim line DVD - RMB00140592 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: SSD RAID 10, HDD RAID 5.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 SP1 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in mixed mode, 70-percent (~2.8TB*) in Memory Mode and 30-percent (~1.2TB) in AppDirect Mode.

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A) - Yes Bulletin 144840 | SUSE