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| System x3755 (7163-72U)
Network Server
IBM | 30 Apr 2010
131830 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN
Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
The IBM® System x3755 provides unmatched price, performance and energy efficiency with four six-core AMD Opteron™ processors and IBM's exclusive CPU Pass Thru card. This innovative card delivers near-linear performance and flexible configurations with headroom to grow in one-CPU incrementsproviding real savings while increasing performance.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 2.0 |
BIOS/uEFI: | C8E132AUS - 1.04 |
CPU: | 4 AMD
Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz |
RAM: | 32 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X 3 USB Ports Serial |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | HLDS
CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N
, IDE |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-9.1 |
Config Notes
- Install: Kernel boot parameter "nomodeset" was added during install.
- Power management: Hibernation / Suspend to Disk / ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
- Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M).
- Graphics: Video driver used in testing was downloaded from http://www.hp.com/support/workstations. Video driver is not SolidDriver-compliant and requires installation of kernel source and development tools.
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Referenced Bulletins
142874
Adapters and Drivers
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ATI
ES1000 |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 720064 |
| Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319 |
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2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 118712 |
| Checksum: a397b5cb2c3d9100887e3b03c122dcf8 |
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IBM
ServeRAID 8k |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 141848 |
| Checksum: 007b0b0d0aad724e116cc96acbb9b91d |
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Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 17016 |
| Checksum: 1b51e0676ecf6888214ff27bef577fc2 |
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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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