System x3850 X5 (7143-B7U)

System x3850 X5 (7143-B7U)
Network Server
IBM

28 Feb 2012
136625

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	G0E171TUS-1.70
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz
RAM:	256 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJDA782 DVD/CDRW , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-30.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8525 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 (M1115) and RAID 0 (H1110).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Network: System uses one of the Intel I350-AM4 quad-port network adapter ports for the dedicated Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) connection. Leaving three network ports available for the standard user network.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 FV guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 4c52fd55d809f6d1d874b06a086608af

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 123168
	Checksum: 44310a1aca6c90b7236ff733f57eb95d

IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 127144
	Checksum: b49348a99f280896c8645e6df242e745

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Jan-2012	Driver Size: 48384
	Checksum: ae99b4395c8eda5cecc9b175d90ef09e

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
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System x3850 X5 (7143-B7U) - Yes Bulletin 136625 | SUSE