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| IBM System x3550 M4 (7914/E5-2600)
Network Server
IBM | 11 Nov 2014
142354 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
The right choice when compromise is not an option, the Lenovo System x3550 M4 blends outstanding uptime, performance and I/O flexibility for cost efficiency and rock-solid reliability. This compact rack server offers an energy-smart, affordable and easy-to-use solution with a pay-as-you-grow design to help lower costs and manage risks. With more computing power per watt, support for the Intel® Xeon® E5 processor and advanced memory support, the x3550 M4 offers balanced performance and density.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | PASS12 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: D7E142AUS - v1.71 - (07/30/2014) |
CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz |
RAM: | 48 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | IBM
300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch Slim-HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM
73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1 |
Config Notes
- 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 Unisys E7000 7600R G4 Bootable 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/unisys/Unisys_E7000_7600R_G4/sle11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/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.
- Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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Referenced Bulletins
141668
Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko |
| Driver Date: 29-Sep-2014 | Driver Size: 97711 |
| Checksum: 0aa1fb610e038786b32b41ad30a9aa41 |
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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 |
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IBM
ServeRAID M1115 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 |
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