K1 Power E980

K1 Power E980
Network Server
Intel Corporation

05 Sep 2019
148625

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	02DE521
BIOS/uEFI:	930.02
CPU:	16 IBM POWER9 3.15 GHz
RAM:	3840 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	32 PCI Express X16 6 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 4 Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Samsung® PM985 2.5 NVMe PCIe SSD, 800GB (MZQLB800HAJR) , NVMe 3 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 SSD, 400GB SAS (WUSTM3240ASS201) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via network.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T adapters was used in this testing. Interrupt remapping support was enabled via echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/allow_unsafe_assigned_interrupts
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
139601

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM57810 10Gb Network Adapter (DualPort)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2019	Driver Size: 1495704
	Checksum: d8b17501062638e05e99a232b9801178
	Driver Version: 1.712.30-0

IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2019	Driver Size: 268640
	Checksum: 11d87e18715fde76f5763f7775fe9189
	Driver Version: 2.6.4

4 Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2019	Driver Size: 75744
	Checksum: 4cc8ee2fa324c07a598d5e6642458cf9
	Driver Version: 1.0

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:

Intel Corporation
Columbia Design Center
100 Center Point Circle, Suite 200
Columbia , SC 29210
Voice: 803-216-2100
Website: www.intel.com

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K1 Power E980 - Yes Bulletin 148625 | SUSE