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 | System x3950 M2 (7233-6Mx)
Network Server
IBM | 15 Jul 2010
133017 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
Windows Server 2008 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
Engineered with the needs of enterprise organizations in mind, the IBM x3950 M2 provides a scalable, efficient and highly reliable solution. This 4th generation X-Architecture® enterprise server combines 64-bit performance in a balanced design. The x3950 M2 can help organizations meet business demands with confidence, and since many organizations require servers that expand as business grows, the x3950 M2 provides the flexibility to run more applications on the same piece of hardware. These features deliver an optimized solution for large database enterprise application and virtualization services.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 5 |
BIOS/uEFI: | A3E164AUS-1.11 |
CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor X7460 2.66 GHz |
RAM: | 62 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 7 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
Integrated 82801GB ICH7
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM
ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | TSST
TS-L463A CDRW DVD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-21.1 |
Config Notes
- VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
- SUSE Driver Kit: The Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
- 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.
- Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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Referenced Bulletins
141668
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 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| Driver Date: 11-May-2010 | Driver Size: 119648 |
| Checksum: 408319e91665510728c6e2af6f65c032 |
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Intel
Integrated 82801GB ICH7 |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| Driver Date: 11-May-2010 | Driver Size: 46680 |
| Checksum: fde68ebefc093229f860141e3127721d |
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IBM
ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 11-May-2010 | Driver Size: 87304 |
| Checksum: bb161bd283126c3ff6d2882e25952a78 |
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IBM
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