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| System x3550 (7978-B3x)
Network Server
Hitachi Vantara | 13 Apr 2011
135134 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
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 AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
64 |
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
Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers the high-speed quad-core processor with blazing front-side bus speed. Optimized for exceptional application computing, the x3550 features a highly functional infrastructure that addresses more memory, lowers power consumption and provides dramatic systems performance increases.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
BIOS/uEFI: | GFE149BUS - v1.17 |
CPU: | Intel
Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5420 2.50 GHz |
RAM: | 8 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | Serial 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
26K5842 146.8GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | Panasonic
UJDA770
, IDE |
USB Keyboard: | Belkin® PS2-to-USB KVM |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1 |
Config Notes
- KVM Guest: The SLE10SP4 guests were configured with a virtual e1000 NIC.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. Each KVM Guest was installed on an LVM partition with its own LV disk.
- KVM Guest: SLE10SP4 guests were booted with the "no-kvmclock" boot parameter.
- Current kernel maintenance updates were installed on the SLE11SP1 KVM guests in order to provide updated virtio drivers.
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Referenced Bulletins
135814
Adapters and Drivers
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ATI
ES1000 |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 304640 |
| Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d |
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2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 213872 |
| Checksum: 9efc4684b649b5f1aa66d229adcbdb2f |
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IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 122136 |
| Checksum: 3c5037458a27c3bf2de577a15c21b548 |
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Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: piix.ko |
| Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 22864 |
| Checksum: 945dd40ec8207865a7b890f1291c43a8 |
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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:
Hitachi Vantara
2845 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara
, CA
95050-2639
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Toll Free: 1-800-446-0744
Fax: 1-408-457-0155
Website: www.hitachivantara.com
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