System x3650 M4 BD (5466

System x3650 M4 BD (5466 - F4x)
Network Server
Atos

21 Jan 2014
141041

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Purpose-built for Big Data, the new IBM® System x3650 M4 BD rack server addresses the marketplace’s growing demand for rapid analysis of enormous volumes of data. This 2U two socket server offers outstanding performance and memory speed, abundant, low cost-per-terabyte storage, and energy efficient features for seamlessly powering your Big Data.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: YOE102DUS - v1.00 (12/19/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v2 2.20 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 500 GB 7.2K SATA Simple-Swap HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 IBM 500GB Hot-Swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T adapters was used in this testing. Interrupt remapping support was enabled via echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/allow_unsafe_assigned_interrupts.
UEFI boot was enabled by setting "Launch Storage OpROM" to "UEFI Driver" in the Setup Utility -> System Settings -> Device and I/O Ports.

Referenced Bulletins
141405

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 M1115 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

IBM ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 271655
	Checksum: eb0224194b14f105753fc4173831ba1c
	Driver Version: 14.100.00.00

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/

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System x3650 M4 BD (5466 - F4x) - Yes Bulletin 141041 | SUSE