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| System x3500 M2 (7839-82x)
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 07 Jun 2011
135766 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2008 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 4 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | Y4E150CUS - v1.08 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz |
| RAM: | 32 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 5 PCI Express X8
PCI Express X16
32-bit/33MHz PCI
6 USB Ports
Serial |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
G200eV |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
, Serial ATA (SATA)
IBM
ServeRAID-MR10i
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM
73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | TSST
TS-H353B DVD-ROM
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| USB Keyboard: | Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/PS2-to-USB connector |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1 |
Config Notes
- 256 CPUs require ESXi 6.7 U2 or higher update level.
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP2 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 256 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.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 15 SP2 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
G200eV |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 174712 |
| | Checksum: 34ada57de469915d1dc3833aa1f21893 |
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| Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 205040 |
| | Checksum: 2d47bbb9f236e9d0493c8281add894d2 |
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| Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 27740 |
| | Checksum: 15f3e5ead30f79cd7a801c33895a8b27 |
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| IBM
ServeRAID-MR10i |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 102256 |
| | Checksum: 0323cc8b1f35f4d624eeabbd44f8daeb |
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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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