PowerEdge 2950 / 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® X5355 2.66 GHz

PowerEdge 2950 / 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® X5355 2.66 GHz
Network Server
IBM

11 Mar 2010
131430

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The dual-socket PowerEdge 2950 delivers performance combined with a balance of internal expandability and rack density. Perfect for network infrastructure applications such as web, messaging, database and file/print consolidation, the PowerEdge 2950 delivers both the performance customers need with the drive capacity demanded for growing applications. The PowerEdge 2950 also provides up to 8 internal hard drive bays in its 2U chassis, allowing large amounts of internal storage for applications that require capacity but not enough to merit an external storage system. It's the perfect balance available in a rack-dense 2U form factor.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	A00
BIOS/uEFI:	2.6.1
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5355 2.66 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Dell Integrated PERC 5/i RAID Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 Seagate® ST936701SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 Seagate® ST973401SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) Fujitsu MAY2036RC SAS 10k 36GB , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Samsung® CD-ROM SN-124 , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2-to-USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-3.1

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


Dell Integrated PERC 5/i RAID Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 69320
	Checksum: 9da425a767b07bf7252b8901709bc351

Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 35152
	Checksum: 0a75c8949fad26ec33a9e6907c42b6fb

ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

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
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PowerEdge 2950 / 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® X5355 2.66 GHz - Yes Bulletin 131430 | SUSE