IBM System x3650 M4 HD (5460)

IBM System x3650 M4 HD (5460)
Network Server
Lenovo

04 Nov 2014
142238

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64

Product Description
The Lenovo® System x3650 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. The powerful server offers an energy-smart, affordable, and easy-to-use rack solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt and Intel® Xeon® E5 v2 processors, advanced memory support, and greater disk capacity for businesses requiring extreme storage, the x3650 M4 offers balanced performance and density. With redundant hot-swap fans, disks and power supplies, the x3650 M4 provides a resilient architecture ideal for business-critical applications. Predictive Failure Analysis and light path diagnostics provide advanced warning on power supplies, fans, VRMs, disks, processors and memory. Redundant hot-swap components make it easy to replace failures without taking your system down.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: VVE142EUS - v1.80 - (09/17/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v2 2.70 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch Slim-HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-103.1

Config Notes

Power management: Hibernation/Suspend to Disk/ACPI S4 is NOT supported on this system.
Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
Graphics: Video driver used in testing was downloaded from http://www.hp.com/support/workstations. Video driver is not SolidDriver-compliant and requires installation of kernel source and development tools.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
System was tested with an Intel I210-T1 added as a second network adapter. The standard system configuration does not include the I210-T1 adapter.

Referenced Bulletins
142876

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 97711
	Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 319895
	Checksum: 5dc831ebe3c0bfe03571c08dedd554dc
	Driver Version: 5.0.5-k

IBM ServeRAID M5210e SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014	Driver Size: 168407
	Checksum: 929c950a0f075f2e946ed38367bf1daf
	Driver Version: 06.803.01.00-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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

569485

IBM System x3650 M4 HD (5460) - Yes Bulletin 142238 | SUSE