IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9)

IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9)
Network Server
IBM

07 Feb 2019
147631

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
IBM Power Systems for enterprise combines cloud management with leadership performance, scale, availability and security to cloud enable the most data intensive, mission critical workloads. The Power System E950 server has built-in virtualization, flexible capacity, and high utilization, ideal for growing, medium-size businesses and as a departmental server or data center building block for large enterprises. Built with the new POWER9 architecture, the E950 provides improvements in application delivery and IT services through increased throughput, reduced response times, and increased memory and I/O bandwidths. With its built-in virtualization and an ecosystem of open cloud solutions, you can cloud-enable any workload without migration and build a cloud that handles the most data-intensive workloads on earth on either a private, hybrid, or multi-cloud platform.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	1
CPU:	48 IBM POWER9 3.15 GHz
RAM:	16 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	8 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM PCIe3 12GB Cache RAID PLUS SAS Adapter Quad-port 6Gb x8 , Serial SCSI (SAS) Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe) , NVMe
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Seagate® Enterprise Performance 15K HDD, SAS, 300 GB, (ST300MP0005) , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.1.0-83.2

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 network install method.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER9 with PowerVM as this functionality is provided by the POWER9 with PowerVM hardware its-self.
Required configuration: SLES 11 SP4 will run in POWER8 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER9 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER8 processor with SMT8

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 295567
	Checksum: eeb2b915b992f930d874697d247b3b11
	Driver Version: 3.137

IBM PCIe3 12GB Cache RAID PLUS SAS Adapter Quad-port 6Gb x8
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ipr.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 221527
	Checksum: a3c9af9381086229aa0eb35f1efcede9
	Driver Version: 2.6.0

Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 128383
	Checksum: bafeac4c4b7fb5c7f20a3c601fdcb52a
	Driver Version: 0.9

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:

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IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) - Yes Bulletin 147631 | SUSE