System x3650 M4 HD (5460-L3x)

System x3650 M4 HD (5460-L3x)
Network Server
IBM

05 Nov 2013
140653

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® System x3650 M4 HD is a 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server. It supports a up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design that delivers an optimal balance of performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) for an improved business environment. The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: VVE134MUS - 1.50 - (08/30/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch Slim-HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=4.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=199M,high crashkernel=152M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All 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.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
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 12 guests. One of the Intel Ethernet Controller I210-AT adapters was used for this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
144991

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: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	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:

IBM
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