IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)

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

13 Aug 2020
149608

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM Power 15 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15

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:	61440 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	32 PCI Express X16 3 USB Ports
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 8.5.0-26.2

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: SSD RAID 10, HDD RAID 5. Kdump (SLES15: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=319M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured in mixed mode, 90-percent (~6.8TB) in Memory Mode and 10-percent (~1.0TB) in AppDirect Mode.

Adapters and Drivers


Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 19-May-2020	Driver Size: 321088
	Checksum: bca07c99fbe6e36e3c3065ead5e237b5
	Driver Version: 3.137

2 Samsung® Non-Volatile memory controller (NVMe)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: nvme.ko
	Driver Date: 19-May-2020	Driver Size: 89160
	Checksum: a8163bd2c2708a5fbdbb20e1fcf33e50
	Driver Version: 1.0

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IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) - Yes Bulletin 149608 | SUSE