System x3850 X6 (3837-B1x) - Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE

System x3850 X6 (3837-B1x) - Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE
Network Server
IBM

18 Mar 2014
141323

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

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 E7-4820 v2 2.0 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 7 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X16
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

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
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 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One adapter in the embedded I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141274

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 I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 284943
	Checksum: 3f925a8e6585d1e68d7588d4d5315de1
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 243991
	Checksum: 4dab303daacaf43d8914c71f4c7292bb
	Driver Version: 3.129

IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 127927
	Checksum: c10dec39fd64f3c26f9c39cefe3c8fbc
	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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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