System x3500 M5 (5464)

System x3500 M5 (5464)
Network Server
Lenovo

07 Apr 2015
143015

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	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 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2012
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The Lenovo System x3500 M5 server provides outstanding performance for your business-critical applications. Its energy-efficient design supports more cores, memory, and data capacity in a scalable Tower or 5U Rack package that is easy to service and manage. With more computing power per watt and the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors, you can reduce costs while maintaining speed and availability. Suggested use: business-critical workloads, cloud computing, virtualization, virtual desktop, big data, analytics, SAP applications, database management, point of sale

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	PASS5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: TAE104C - v1.02 - (12/05/2014)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz
RAM:	96 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST2000NM0001 - Constellation ES SAS 6Gb/s 2-TB Hard Drive , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	IBM SATA DEVICE 81Y3675 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. An added Intel 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller adapters was used in this testing.
Maintenance updates: The Linux Kernel 333 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
UEFI Configuration: The default "Per Core P-state" setting in the UEFI setup must be changed from Enable to Disable with SLES 12. (F1 Setup --> System Settings --> Processors --> Per Core P-state to Disable).
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 98407
	Checksum: 559904d70192d46539fbdb28d55207c2

Intel 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 420135
	Checksum: 5144533b13010e85e1f489f3166e7cd3
	Driver Version: 2.3.2-k

Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 256695
	Checksum: abe2af5e342789d9364a9d44587a0b65
	Driver Version: 3.136

Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 64607
	Checksum: 2e9c0c42ef3f3598bf5dc3d4927fa2c8
	Driver Version: 3.0

Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Jan-2015	Driver Size: 167607
	Checksum: bae90f67ede23eb92bc4c6b92af8739f
	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

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