System x3500 M2 (7839-82x)

System x3500 M2 (7839-82x)
Network Server
Lenovo

07 Jan 2010
131066

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	Y4E130VUS - 1.01
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 32-bit/33MHz PCI PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2-to-USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 1 and 5. System was configured as 2-node scalable partition.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=227M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. The Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server adapter was used for this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 174104
	Checksum: 3fd8cbe764d6a2ef73172f99be1aebd7

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 194032
	Checksum: 43acc5b4410defee9acb7422083f3c65

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 38728
	Checksum: 0570b3a7035f99e94edbcf12f33799db

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 55164
	Checksum: da730c8103368369176f8a8e46843c51

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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