System x3530 M4 (7160

System x3530 M4 (7160 - H2x)
Network Server
Dell Incorporated

01 Jul 2013
139371

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

Product Description
The IBM® System x3530 M4 server delivers dual-socket performance in a 1U compact footprint. Featuring the latest Intel® Romley EN platform, the x3530 M4 is a flexible rack server positioned as a good investment value, while considering your total cost of ownership and IBM commitment. It is designed to provide affordable value and increased flexibility with performance and quality to match. Designed with redundancy, flexible subsystems, and a wider range of configuration options, the x3530 M4 also offers an innovative Feature on Demand (FoD) design for an easier upgrade path.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	JACARANDA 10057-1A
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: BEE124CUS v1.30 - (11/30/2012)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2470 2.30 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 3 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.9

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10. 64-bit guests were tested with a maximum memory configuration of 64GB.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the Intel I350-T ML2 GbE adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 04209c6e4689c945def3ec8246f509c8
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: ca8097bbe78ba63e037dcf858d226df0
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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:

Dell Incorporated
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ROUND ROCK , TX 78682

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System x3530 M4 (7160 - H2x) - Yes Bulletin 139371 | SUSE