IBM Power 780 Server (9179-MHC)

IBM Power 780 Server (9179-MHC)
Network Server
IBM

10 Nov 2011
136352

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM Power 780 server (9179-MHC) utilizes the latest POWER7 processor technology designed to deliver performance, scalability, reliability, and manageability for demanding commercial workloads. The innovative IBM Power 780 model MHC server is a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), rack-mounted server. This modular-built system uses one to four drawer enclosures which are four EIA units tall and housed in a 19-inch rack. New to the model MHC server are two new, POWER7 processor drawers. Each of the new drawers contains a POWER7 processor card and an enhanced POWER7 I/O backplane. Each POWER7 processor card is comprised of either two single-chip module (SCM) POWER7 processors or, new to model MHC, four SCM POWER7 processors. Each designed with 64-bit architecture. The POWER7 SCM processor is available at 3.22 GHz.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	4 IBM POWER7™ 3.22 GHz
RAM:	128 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Fujitsu MBE2147RC , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM SATA DVD-RAM Drive (Slim) / RMBO0040532 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

Install: The SLES install was performed using a network install method.
Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured by using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Power Management: System/Processor does not support dynamic CPU frequency scaling.
PLDP update: The following update was applied during certification tests: http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/Emulex/sle11sp1/common/DUD/dud_be2net.4.0.244s/bug-708484_sles11sp1-emulex-1.iso. This update is PLDP compliant.
PLDP Driver: The following two rpm's were used during testing: iprutils-2.3.7-1.ppc64.rpm and ibm-ipr-kmp-ppc64-2.5.2_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.ppc64.rpm. These drivers can be downloaded from the following location: http://drivers.suse.com/driver-process/pub/update/IBM/sle11sp1/common/ppc64/. These drivers are PLDP compliant.

Adapters and Drivers


Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Adapter OCe11102-N (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Sep-2011	Driver Size: 1375104
	Checksum: c3c440057d5e2a16245977d15fe04418

IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Aug-2011	Driver Size: 191496
	Checksum: f95da5f74e1780b80748e55ba5afbeaf

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

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

IBM
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