IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A)

IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A)
Network Server
IBM

19 Jul 2016
144840

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
Scale-out appalication server for infrastructure built on open technology

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	20 IBM POWER8 3.42 GHz
RAM:	176 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8 2 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® Savvio® 15K.3, 2.5-inch 300 GB 15K 6Gb/s SAS (ST9300653SS) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM slim line DVD - RMB00140592 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.5.0-20.4

Config Notes

This is a SAN boot only system.
Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.20.4110.iso" and the driver package htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.20.4110_3.12.49_11-1.sles12sp1.x86_64.rpm. To obtain the DUD and the driver package, go to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12347004.html. The DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
The maximum CPU cores or threads, when hyper threading is enabled, that can be allocated from LPAR is 240.

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 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7)
	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 S822 (8284-22A) - Yes Bulletin 144840 | SUSE