IBM Power System S812LC (8348-21C) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S812LC (8348-21C) with PowerKVM
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Jan 2016
144042

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM Power System is designed to deliver high performance and throughput for big data, analytic's and high value Linux workloads.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	10 IBM POWER8 2.92 GHz
RAM:	Total Host Memory: 512 GB, Multi-VM tested memory: 100 GB each, Max VM tested memory: 400 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ibmvscsi , virtio IBM Virtio Block Device , virtio
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM QEMU Virtual Hard Disk , virtio
CD/DVD:	IBM QEMU DVD-ROM , virtio
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD two disk RAID 0 and M.2 boot device configured as RAID 0.
Persistent Memory: Configured in Mixed Mode, with 90-percent Memory Mode and 10-percent AppDirect Mode.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP5 guest. One of the Intel X550-T2 Dual Port 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 60815
	Checksum: 1315b0f70a097969f015d8d718a78426

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 67791
	Checksum: 84dd6f43b9d9db80849692bd4b9f29ea
	Driver Version: 1.5.9

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 34951
	Checksum: 6fb4445448118b15a91696c31a08b742

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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