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The sleep, suspend, and hibernate power states are traditionally meant to be used on portable laptop or notebook systems, that is, systems with integrated batteries.
As such, Red Hat tests and guarantees this feature only on supported laptop and notebook systems. Alternatively, Red Hat does not normally test sleep, suspend, and hibernate functionality on server, workstation, or desktop systems.  While these power states may work on some non-portable systems, Red Hat does not guarantee this feature.  If you encounter any issues pertaining to these power states on non-portable platforms, and you feel they should be supported, please contact your support representative and ask them to file a feature request on your behalf. Alternately, a feature request may be filed at the following link: