IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTA) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTA) with PowerKVM
Network Server
Lenovo

25 Mar 2016
144247

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
For high performance computing, IBM Power System maximize throughput, increase workload density, and reduce floor space.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Virtual Machine
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	20 IBM POWER8 2.92 GHz
RAM:	Total host memory 256 GB; Max VM tested with 200 GB and Multi-VM tested with 50 GB per VM
Ports and Bus Types:	2 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
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

Graphics: Video driver used in this configuration is SolidDriver-compliant and may be installed by adding http://www2.ati.com/suse/sle12 as a software repository then installing the auto-selected ati-fglrx packages. This repository and driver packages are added automatically when installing in a network environment.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed from 256 MB (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Power management: Hibernation/Suspend to Disk/ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.

Referenced Bulletins
143226

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Feb-2016	Driver Size: 60815
	Checksum: 354f9d75e204d96c3e386902295fb59f

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Feb-2016	Driver Size: 67799
	Checksum: c81f479c56d100b91de87a70f9a4a8b0
	Driver Version: 1.5.9

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Feb-2016	Driver Size: 34951
	Checksum: a9290bdeaed4bb520a8b2de6d850a7c1

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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IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTA) with PowerKVM - Yes Bulletin 144247 | SUSE