System x3850 X5 (7143-B2U)

System x3850 X5 (7143-B2U)
Network Server
IBM

18 May 2011
135577

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Flexible, balanced design for scalability, memory expansion Fifth-generation IBM® X-Architecture® chipset design combined with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product line

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	G0E152WUS-1.50
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4820 2.0 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

VMware Tools information can be found at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/340 and http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014294.
Installation of VMware Tools is recommended to enhance performance and improve management of virtual machines. VMware Tools for SUSE® Linux Enterprise are available as an ISO (TAR Format with perl installer) bundled with vSphere or RPM Format tools can be downloaded from the following location: SLES 11 - http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/sles11.2/index.html. SLES 10 - http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/sles10/index.html
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/home.html .
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory with SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 and 30 GB on x86 VMs.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 118712
	Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232

IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

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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System x3850 X5 (7143-B2U) - Yes Bulletin 135577 | SUSE