IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GCA) with PowerKVM

IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GCA) with PowerKVM
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

30 Mar 2016
144276

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

3 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
High throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads such as LAMP, BDA, or industry applications

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; Multi-VM tested with 50 GB per VM
Ports and Bus Types:	3 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 2 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

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141558

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Virtual (Virtio) Ethernet adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: virtio_net.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Jan-2016	Driver Size: 60719
	Checksum: 33890502568df750b2a89869261dc34a

IBM ibmvscsi
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ibmvscsi.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Jan-2016	Driver Size: 67791
	Checksum: c8b07e6658fd6a1a6c73800c36d98ac3
	Driver Version: 1.5.9

IBM Virtio Block Device
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: virtio_blk.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Jan-2016	Driver Size: 34799
	Checksum: 8d262c41f12d8ec65d6ebb8e584b9d53

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Servers Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070

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