IBM Power System L922 (9008-22L)

IBM Power System L922 (9008-22L)
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

04 Mar 2019
147699

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
IBM® Power Systems™ L922 server easily integrates into your organization’s cloud & cognitive strategy and delivers industry leading price performance for your mission critical workloads

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	24 IBM POWER9 2.7 GHz
RAM:	480 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 6 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST300MP0064 - Enterprise Performance 15K HDD 300 GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 6. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=198M,high crashkernel=122M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV/PCI Pass-through: Current system configuration does not support network SR-IOV or network PCI Pass-through.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 SP1 "grub2 1027" updates are required and were installed during certification testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 310312
	Checksum: 6efe36c5c2fad0f25da276572be54eb1
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 267088
	Checksum: b10d9c62afa2bfd5b696c297600b6c2c
	Driver Version: 2.6.4

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

574819

IBM Power System L922 (9008-22L) - Yes Bulletin 147699 | SUSE