System x3250 M5 (5458-C3x/C5x)

System x3250 M5 (5458-C3x/C5x)
Network Server
xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd.

27 Aug 2014
141844

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1

Product Description
The IBM® System x3250 M5 single-socket 1U rack server is designed for small businesses and first-time server buyers looking for a solution to improve business efficiency. It delivers several IBM innovative features in a compact 1U form factor with a competitive price. The IBM System x3250 M5 provides next-generation performance in an innovative and compact design with flexible configuration options, built-in security, and systems management capabilities, as described in the IBM Redbooks® Product Guide. It leverages the next-generation quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 processor technology.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: JUE116BUS - v1.04 - (07/03/2014)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1231 v3 3.40 GHz
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel DH82C226 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch Slim-HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM 81Y3672 SATA DEVICE , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and a SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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.

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

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 242863
	Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06
	Driver Version: 3.129

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

Intel DH82C226 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 58287
	Checksum: 473c4648eb91631c32be9d18fb2e85ad
	Driver Version: 3.0

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:

xFusion Digital Technologies Co., Ltd.
23F Meisheng Center, 33 East Jinshui Rd
Zhengzhou, Nei Mongol 450018
CHINA

564844

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