IBM Power System E980

IBM Power System E980
Network Server
Lenovo

23 Sep 2019
148694

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 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 3.55 GHz
RAM:	64 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	32 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM Mainstream 800 GB SSD NVMe U.2 module , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article for ppc64le: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER10 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER10 hardware itself.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
CPU: This system is a 4 node configuration with 4 sockets per node, totaling 16 CPU sockets. The POWER10 4.0 GHz CPUs tested each have 15 cores and SMT 8. Totaling for the system 240 cores and 1920 threads.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 311280
	Checksum: 9ee4beb45b5fe1dbdefdb4fa2b20b1d9
	Driver Version: 3.137

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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