K1 Power E950

K1 Power E950
Network Server
IBM

07 Oct 2019
148717

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	00DD915
BIOS/uEFI:	920.40
CPU:	4 IBM POWER9 3.4 GHz
RAM:	960 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 8 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Adapter Quad-port 6Gb (57B4) , Serial SCSI (SAS) Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 SSD, 400GB SAS (WUSTM3240ASS201) , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Samsung® PM985 2.5 NVMe PCIe SSD, 800GB (MZQLB800HAJR) , NVMe Western Digital Ultrastar® DC SS530 SSD, 800GB SAS (WUSTM3280ASS201) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Hard disk configuration: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
141545

Adapters and Drivers


2 Broadcom® NetXtreme II BCM57800 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 1475088
	Checksum: 5901ef386164ce4aa0c4f7edb5f4111c
	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: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 265072
	Checksum: 495e485c97f5adb6c3ca747d4eba4208
	Driver Version: 2.6.4

Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 74600
	Checksum: 86f491a5e8decfab33af57aec6907243
	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:

IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

565037

K1 Power E950 - Yes Bulletin 148717 | SUSE