IBM Power S1012 (9028-21B)

IBM Power S1012 (9028-21B)
Network Server
Sugon Information Industry Co., ltd.

21 Oct 2024
153579

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
The Power S1012 (9028-21B) server is a one-socket, half-wide offered in a Rack or Tower/Deskside form factor that provides low cost-optmized system. The Power S1012 server brings a secure environment that balances mission-critical traditional workloads.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	IBM Power10 3.9 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Host Bus Adapter:	Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Samsung devices
Hard Disk Drive:	Samsung® 800GB NVMe Gen4 U.2 SSD III
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 9.0.0-150500.103.1

Config Notes

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.
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.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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
141667

Adapters and Drivers


Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) for Samsung devices
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 40620


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko.zst
	Driver Date: 12-Jun-2024	Driver Size: 118195

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