CH225 V5

CH225 V5
Network Server
IBM

15 Jul 2018
146758

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
http://e.huawei.com/cn/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/e-series/ch225-v5-node

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:	V100R006
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: 0.247 (09/01/2017)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8176 Processor 2.10 GHz
RAM:	30 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® SAS3508 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	Seagate® ST600MM0006 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.1

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware itself.
Maintenance updates: the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 SP1 system requires the following two maintenance updates, 1) kernel-default-3.12.57-60.35.1.ppc64le.rpm. The system can be updated after the initial install. This update can be downloaded from: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=qd0PaT_bWqU~ and 2) kexec-tools 1056 update available at: https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=8uWJi0YOv-o~.

Referenced Bulletins
144839

Adapters and Drivers


Silicon Motion, Inc. SM750
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: modesetting_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-Jun-2017	Driver Size: 73936
	Checksum: 07f6bc7429407531b049ff31a0981ca8
	Driver Version: 1.18.3

2 Intel Integrated Ethernet Connection X722 10GbE
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: i40e.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 480431
	Checksum: 539a9b943f24800324b22ae1df4ab80c
	Driver Version: 1.6.27-k

Broadcom® SAS3508
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 236751
	Checksum: c96d2df516f3a67f3960bb982a2a0b3d
	Driver Version: 07.701.17.00-rc1

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

578615

CH225 V5 - Yes Bulletin 146758 | SUSE