IBM System x3950 X6 (3837/E7-8800 v2)

IBM System x3950 X6 (3837/E7-8800 v2)
Network Server
Lenovo

09 Nov 2016
144976

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

2 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 12	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® System x3950 X6 server is an eight-socket 8U rack-mounted server that represents the sixth generation of the IBM 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 v2 high-performance processors and up to 12 TB of memory.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A8E117BUS - v1.20 (11/18/2015)
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v2 2.80 GHz
RAM:	Host Platform: 768 GB, multi 64-bit SLES guests: 64000 MB, 32-bit SLES and Windows guests: 16000 MB, single max VM guest: 750000 MB.
Ports and Bus Types:	2 Serial 4 PCI Express X16 6 PCI Express X8 14 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR2
Host Bus Adapter:	2 IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 600GB 10K SAS 2.5-inch 6Gbps SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-35.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=223M,high crashkernel=142M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 guests. One of the Emulex VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR2
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 95983
	Checksum: 8d0daa431f9a406ce58eb31c48f8835f

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 249959
	Checksum: bf83440ec121ba6b013936a671b71efb
	Driver Version: 3.137

Emulex Corporation VFA5 ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: be2net.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 207607
	Checksum: 6348350c00684633fae17df713e5fdb1
	Driver Version: 11.0.0.0

Intel I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 351071
	Checksum: b86d8a974ab8541cfab1956fcb34ae84
	Driver Version: 5.3.0-k

2 IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 19-Sep-2016	Driver Size: 216703
	Checksum: 592300859f5d508ea6e0d5ac33d90503
	Driver Version: 06.810.09.00-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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