IBM Power E1080 (9080-HEX)

IBM Power E1080 (9080-HEX)
Network Server
IBM

20 Oct 2021
151004

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
IBM Power E1080 (9080-HEX) system is a scale-up Enterprise class server that is based on POWER10 processor. Power E1080 Enterprise server delivers a uniquely architected platform to help securely and efficiently scale core operational and AI applications in a hybrid cloud.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	8 IBM POWER10 4.0 GHz
RAM:	8192 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	12 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Samsung® NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983 , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM Mainstream 3.2 TB SSD NVMe U.2 module (#EC5L) , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.6.0-34.2

Config Notes

PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.

Referenced Bulletins
141273

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Nov-2019	Driver Size: 308688
	Checksum: e2e286a3c242fd5f349ff04c45e99863
	Driver Version: 3.137

2 Samsung® NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983

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IBM Power E1080 (9080-HEX) - Yes Bulletin 151004 | SUSE