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| System x3500 (7977-R2x)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 07 Mar 2011
134749 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The IBM System x3500 delivers performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With quad-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Tower |
Mother Board Revision: | 6 |
BIOS/uEFI: | SPE171AUS - v1.71 |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5450 3.0 GHz |
RAM: | 20 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 3 PCI Express X8 Serial Parallel Port 4 USB Ports 32-bit/33MHz PCI |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM
250 GB 3.5-inch Hot-Swap SATA II
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
CD/DVD: | HLDS
GSA-H10N
, IDE |
USB Keyboard: | Cybex® AutoView Commander™ PS2 KVM |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP5 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at:http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html.
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP5 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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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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Broadcom®
Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 195528 |
| Checksum: 285b55570ca63452e80c26d12c8206ca |
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IBM
ServeRAID 8k |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 141912 |
| Checksum: a0974efb52d83c07ab31155e623121df |
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Intel
Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 46680 |
| Checksum: 02ccb110f6b9828baf0c7a9e8544bcb0 |
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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:
VMware, Inc.
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Palo Alto
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