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| System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)
Network Server
IBM | 13 Apr 2011
135000 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Windows Server 2008 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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 - v1.04 |
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 Serial 3 USB Ports |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
, IDE IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | HLDS
CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N
, IDE |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1 |
Config Notes
- Hard Disk configuration: RAID 5.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE10SP4 drivers are included with SLE10SP4. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-1.7_00.exe).
- Fully Virtualized Guest: All FV guests must be installed with less than 4GB of assigned memory. Using advanced Xen configuration parameters and procedures the guest amount can be increased to 4GB or above after the guest OS install.
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Adapters and Drivers
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ATI
ES1000 |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008 | Driver Size: 283804 |
| Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560 |
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2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 205040 |
| Checksum: 31d365bceac4987bde82ebfd51118d60 |
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Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: serverworks.ko |
| Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 15136 |
| Checksum: e966831041b6ca264445d0224ae018d6 |
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IBM
ServeRAID 8k |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 101244 |
| Checksum: 3621012cf3e19f254c8763a948d041ce |
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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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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