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![](/nbswebapp/YES.png) | IBM Power 740 Express Server (8205-E6D)
Network Server
IBM | 11 Nov 2015
143787 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
High performance, reliable, expandable midsize database and consolidation server.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
CPU: | 16 IBM
POWER7+ 3.60 GHz |
RAM: | 120 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: | 2 Seagate®
ST9146802SS
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | IBM
SATA DVD-RAM Drive (Slim) / RMBO0040542
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.4.0-30.3 |
Config Notes
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=281M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
- Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. SSD Drive Configuration: RAID 6. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 2 Compute Books.
- SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the internal VFA5 ML2 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.
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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: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 295567 |
| Checksum: eeb2b915b992f930d874697d247b3b11 |
| Driver Version: 3.137 |
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IBM
Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 221527 |
| Checksum: a3c9af9381086229aa0eb35f1efcede9 |
| 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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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