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| IBM Power 720 Express (8202-E4D)
Network Server
IBM | 10 Mar 2013
138988 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
With IBM''s all new POWER7+ CPU
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
CPU: | 6 IBM
POWER7+ 3.60 GHz |
RAM: | 64 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 5 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 3 Seagate®
ST9146802SS
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | IBM
SATA DVD-RAM Drive (Slim) / RMBO0040542
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2 |
Config Notes
- Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 hardware itself.
- Install: OS installed via USB CD/DVD drive.
- Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
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Adapters and Drivers
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Broadcom®
BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 264488 |
| Checksum: 9795a937b840ebb2f71ddec5742b7478 |
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IBM
Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko |
| Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012 | Driver Size: 197072 |
| Checksum: 1a807fcf1410d36437e45fd8a0e06c08 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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
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