IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)

IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)
Network Server
IBM

07 Feb 2019
147629

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 12 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
The IBM® Power® System E980 server offers the next generation of IBM Power Systems™ servers with POWER9™ technology-based processors. It is built with innovations that can help deliver security and reliability for the data-intensive workloads of today's enterprises. POWER9 technology is designed from the ground up for data-intensive workloads like databases and analytics.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	192 IBM POWER9 3.55 GHz
RAM:	32 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 32 PCI Express X16
Host Bus Adapter:	2 Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM Mainstream 800 GB SSD NVMe U.2 module , NVMe
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.2

Config Notes

Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a CD-ROM install method.
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
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 (PowerVM) as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 hardware itself.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 308304
	Checksum: 8d0f3568332277655ed09b7b2b2576cc
	Driver Version: 3.137

2 Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 74600
	Checksum: 86f491a5e8decfab33af57aec6907243
	Driver Version: 1.0

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

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IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) - Yes Bulletin 147629 | SUSE