System x3500 M3 (7380-92x)

System x3500 M3 (7380-92x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

05 Apr 2010
131640

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2

Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M3 delivers outstanding six-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:	Y4E145VUS - 1.03
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5680 3.33 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® G200eV
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 6.6.0-7.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and 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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.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 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port), adapter was used during this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update, slessp3-xen-201307-8063, is required and was installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.

Referenced Bulletins
140246

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 201412
	Checksum: 82bb390e7cef098e3160a754caeb9408

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 185028
	Checksum: 7167ced0f73fb67282fe8b1944f7fd5a

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 26820
	Checksum: 7a92dea337a702c11024dde1a0356d5c

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 37340
	Checksum: 32324c212d14c1e6ee345a67e316f35c

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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