System x3250 M3 (4252-AC1)

System x3250 M3 (4252-AC1)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

02 Jun 2010
132354

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM® System x3250 M3 is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well-suited for small to mid-sized businesses as well as large enterprises, whether for general-purpose workloads or specialized applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	GYE133TUS-1.04
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor X3470 2.93 GHz
RAM:	6 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Ibex Peak (PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJDA782 DVD/CDRW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-13.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=192M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
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 http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters added to the Xen section of the /etc/default/grub file: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 214440
	Checksum: ed019ab3cc2236c77e6bf6008834af12

Intel Ibex Peak (PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: 8f4bce9b6743cddd8237a55c40206a42

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 104416
	Checksum: e226513857435a66d82832cb5d939f42

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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