IBM Power System S924 (9009-42A)

IBM Power System S924 (9009-42A)
Network Server
IBM

19 Apr 2018
146685

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The next generation of Power Systems servers with POWER9 technology is built with innovations that can help deliver security and reliability for the data-intensive workloads of today's enterprises. POWER9 technology is designed from the ground up for data-intensive workloads like databases and analytics.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	24 IBM POWER9 3.4 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® ST300MP0064 - Enterprise Performance 15K HDD 300 GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network using UEFI boot loader. Hard disk configuration: two HDD and two M.2, boot drive, configured as RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (parameter values can be changed).
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146043

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 295567
	Checksum: eeb2b915b992f930d874697d247b3b11
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 221527
	Checksum: a3c9af9381086229aa0eb35f1efcede9
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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
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