Nutanix Acropolis on IBM CS821 (8005-12N)

Nutanix Acropolis on IBM CS821 (8005-12N)
Network Server
IBM

01 Mar 2018
146596

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software with IBM Power System™ hardware to deliver a turnkey hyper converged solution that targets critical workloads in large enterprises.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	20 IBM POWER8 2.10 GHz
RAM:	Host platform: 256 GB, Multi_VM Tested Memory: 8 GB each, Max VM Tested Memory: 64 GB
Host Bus Adapter:	Nutanix, Inc. VirtIO SCSI adapter , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	Nutanix, Inc. Nutanix Virtual disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	Nutanix, Inc. KVM Virtual CD ROM , virtio
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP5 guest. One of the Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device configured as RAID 0.

Referenced Bulletins
148897

Adapters and Drivers


Nutanix, Inc. VirtIO LAN adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 64935


Nutanix, Inc. VirtIO SCSI adapter
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_pci.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 43919
	Checksum: 7f7fd8e5741a6773e4f0152e81842e59
	Driver Version: 1

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 65935
	Checksum: 194deb990df805862ff7412727bbcbb2
	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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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Nutanix Acropolis on IBM CS821 (8005-12N) - Yes Bulletin 146596 | SUSE