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| System x3950 X6 (3837-BAx) - Intel I350-T4 ML2 GbE
Network Server
VMware, Inc. | 12 Jun 2014
141567 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Product Description
The IBM® System x3950 X6 server is an eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server that represents the sixth generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture®. It delivers innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, availability, and serviceability features to enable optimal performance for mission-critical databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The x3950 X6 packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density, 8U rack-optimized lid-less package that helps to significantly reduce the space that is needed to support massive network computing operations and simplify servicing. The x3950 X6 supports up to eight Intel Xeon E7-8800 v2 high-performance processors and up to 12 TB of memory.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A8E107JUS - v1.00 (05/02/2014) |
CPU: | Intel
Core™ i3-2350M Processor 2.30 GHz |
RAM: | 768 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 2 Serial 14 USB Ports 6 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16 |
Video Adapter: | ATI
AMD Radeon® HD 6400M |
Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
BD82HM65 PCH
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Hard Disk Drive: | Hitachi GST
HTS54756
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
CD/DVD: | HP
DVDRAM GT50N
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10 |
Config Notes
- System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP5 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 768 CPUs and 24560 GB of memory.
- VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see the knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
- VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
- The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP5 is autoloaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
- VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
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Adapters and Drivers
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ATI
AMD Radeon® HD 6400M |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: fglrx_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 28-Nov-2012 | Driver Size: 18416686 |
| Checksum: 113297bf0499f57953c9be8e4d4488d2 |
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REALTEK
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: r8169.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Mar-2012 | Driver Size: 93016 |
| Checksum: 018d8c471bea5c136b7db2ce961f6dd4 |
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Atheros®
AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ath9k.ko |
| Driver Date: 28-Mar-2012 | Driver Size: 160624 |
| Checksum: 7ad6dceb811f7f27a38ed0c3f6ccfaf8 |
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Intel
BD82HM65 PCH |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko |
| Driver Date: 28-Mar-2012 | Driver Size: 52464 |
| Checksum: f3bc2977713227407620d728d06f386f |
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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:
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