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| Lenovo System x3950 X6 (E7 v3 with DDR3) (6241)
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd. | 27 May 2015
143209 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The Lenovo System x3950 X6 server is an eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server that represents the sixth generation of the Lenovo 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 v3 high-performance processors and up to 12 TB of memory.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A9E121VUS - v1.00 (04/01/2015) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v2 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 128 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 6 PCI Express X8
4 PCI Express X16
2 Serial
14 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Hitachi
Virtual VGA compatible controller |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Hitachi
8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card
, FibreChannel |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device: | Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.3 |
Config Notes
- Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
- Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER8 as this functionality is provided by the POWER8 hardware its-self.
- Required configuration: SLES 11 SP3 will run in POWER7 Compatibility mode. 'Compatibility mode' simply means that the POWER8 processor with SMT8 will act as though it were a POWER7 processor with SMT4.
- Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were changed based on the content in the following knowledge-base article: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3374462.
- Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
- SUSE update ISO: The SLES-11-SP3-MINI-ISO-power8.iso is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This update must be downloaded and used before SUSE Linux Enterprise Server install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-POWER/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html and review the installation instructions.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Hitachi
Virtual VGA compatible controller |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 09-Mar-2013 | Driver Size: 23688 |
| | Checksum: 3d2a3bede51296525d33a2e8c5650f56 |
| | Driver Version: 0.4.1 |
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| 2 Emulex Corporation
OCe11102-NM |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: be2net.ko |
| | Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 150471 |
| | Checksum: ec63c2a4a680c294fdbc13d1b60329c6 |
| | Driver Version: 4.4.161.0s |
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| Hitachi
8Gb 2-port fibre channel mezzanine card |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: hfcldd.ko |
| | Driver Date: 04-Feb-2014 | Driver Size: 5352297 |
| | Checksum: b9ccfc87603281ad8ed7429eb6d99227 |
| | Driver Version: 4.11.17.2164 |
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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:
Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken
259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495
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