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| IBM Power System S824 (8286-42A)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 27 Jun 2014
141671 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Product Description
IBM's POWER8 based Power System S824. Open technology server for faster insights from data.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
| CPU: | 24 IBM
POWER8 3.52 GHz |
| RAM: | 512 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 7 PCI Express X8
4 PCI Express X16
4 USB Ports |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 Seagate®
Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS)
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | IBM
slim line DVD - RMB00140592
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
- System cerification testing was performed with a SLES 15 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 4080 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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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: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 285735 |
| | Checksum: bd6cf819c0a7b684907628138ea06f1d |
| | Driver Version: 3.129 |
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| IBM
Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 213287 |
| | Checksum: 3bce48a5eab10a3dc648f147006c87b9 |
| | Driver Version: 2.6.0 |
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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:
VMware, Inc.
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Palo Alto
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