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![](/nbswebapp/YES.png) | System x3500 M4 (7383 - D2x)
Network Server
Hitachi Vantara | 12 Apr 2012
137415 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 15 |
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 E5-2630 2.30 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
- Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
- VM Driver Pack: All 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).
- SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One adapter from each of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel:512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
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Referenced Bulletins
141555
Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 23984 |
| Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4 |
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Intel
Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port) |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: igb.ko |
| Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 173032 |
| Checksum: e885a7dabd215037973a22c40566a353 |
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Intel
BD82C602 PCH |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 68024 |
| Checksum: 24a55b3289035ed77c631a6370bb00e2 |
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IBM
ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 131640 |
| Checksum: 7e4aa46a1bf609dd0be6697b574c1c82 |
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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
2535 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara
, CA
95054
Voice: 1-408-970-1000
Toll Free: 1-800-227-1930
Fax: 1-408-727-8036
Website: www.hitachivantara.com
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