IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)

IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)
Network Server
Fujitsu

08 Apr 2019
147833

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM® Power® System E980 server offers the next generation of IBM Power Systems™ servers with POWER9™ technology-based processors. It 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:	192 IBM POWER9 3.4 GHz
RAM:	32 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 32 PCI Express X16
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS300 SSD HUSMM3280ASS201 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.2

Config Notes

Power management: Hibernation / Suspend to Disk / ACPI S4 is supported on this system.
Power management: Sleep / Suspend to RAM / ACPI S3 is supported on this system.
Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
The eGalax Touchscreen driver 3.13.10322-32b used during testing was installed from the package eGalaxTouch-3.13.10322-32b.tar.gz. This driver is installed after the SLED install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.eeti.com/drivers_Linux.html. The eGalax Touch Driver is added to the SLED OS by Wincor and is not SUSE SolidDriver compliant or supported by SUSE.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Nov-2016	Driver Size: 295591
	Checksum: 8447315653ad770ea42e3c9a4e15e636
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 06-Nov-2016	Driver Size: 222023
	Checksum: 99c4b05a72b2d278fe2982c48ae657f3
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY
Website: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/index.html

571820

IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) - Yes Bulletin 147833 | SUSE