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| System x3850 X6 (3837-C1x) - Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT
Network Server
IBM | 07 Mar 2014
141291 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
2
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
2
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
In organizations in every industry, big data and analytics workloads deliver the actionable insight needed to drive faster decision making. You need systems that you can confidently deploy to run your mission-critical applications, decrease operating costs and support your cloud computing plans. New IBM® X6 servers featuring exclusive IBM X-Architecture® innovations and Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v2 processors can help you meet these challenges with revolutionary levels of processor and storage performance, memory capacity and resiliency.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A8E103QUS - v1.00 (01/25/2014) |
CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-4860 v2 2.60 GHz |
RAM: | 768 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | Serial 7 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID M5210 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) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE11SP1 drivers are included with SLE11SP1. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com.
- Current kernel and Xen maintenance updates were installed for this test configuration.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- The following Xen hypervisor boot parameters were used for this test configuration: "dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=20"
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Referenced Bulletins
135406
Adapters and Drivers
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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 |
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Broadcom®
BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 242863 |
| Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06 |
| Driver Version: 3.129 |
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Intel
X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ixgbe.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 349319 |
| Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150 |
| Driver Version: 3.11.33-k |
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IBM
ServeRAID M5210 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 |
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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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com
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