IBM Power System S824 (8286-42A)

IBM Power System S824 (8286-42A)
Network Server
IBM

27 Jun 2016
144755

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
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:	176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 7 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 Cache SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6GB (57D8) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE UEFI network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 6.
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.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 313559
	Checksum: dcc50bbd7989a3e4b4add2a53ed57924
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 x8 Cache SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6GB (57D8)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 11-Nov-2015	Driver Size: 260999
	Checksum: ee8e2246a9629a222ccc05805e41e216
	Driver Version: 2.6.2

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
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IBM Power System S824 (8286-42A) - Yes Bulletin 144755 | SUSE