System x3500 M4 (7383

System x3500 M4 (7383 - AC1)
Network Server
Lenovo

02 Apr 2012
137277

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
A high-performance dual-socket tower server, the IBM® System x3500 M4 can deliver the scalability, reliable performance and optimized efficiency for your business critical applications. Start with the basics and upgrade as your business changes without jeopardizing existing investments. Virtualizing the PC infrastructure into one server can provide access to a powerful server with abundant storage space, while significantly reducing IT costs.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	1
BIOS/uEFI:	Y5E111MUS - v1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2630L 2.00 GHz
RAM:	48 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 PCI Express X8 3 PCI Express X16 Serial 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C602 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 15.7K SAS 6-GB/s 3.5 inch hot-swap 300-GB Hard Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS DVD DH40N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8063 x86-64 is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=4".
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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
140213

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 23656
	Checksum: cf285f072181da40932b9a50726013b6

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 158144
	Checksum: b9a09438fe817bb29b037402742c4ec9

Intel BD82C602 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 79616
	Checksum: 9a56d2e958906e7bda5247c29d4d282f

IBM ServeRAID M1115 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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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