 | System x3500 M5 (5464/E5-2600 v3)
Network Server IBM | 11 Oct 2017
146020 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE SLES 12 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 4 for SUSE SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2016 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | SP: Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12 | |
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: | PASS 5 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: TAE130J - v2.40 (04/11/2017) |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3 2.30 GHz |
| RAM: | Host platform: 96 GB, single max VM guest: 82 GB, multiple VM guests: 16 GB each |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 4 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200eR2 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Lenovo
ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate® Constellation ES.3 ST2000NM0023 (2TB) , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | IBM SATA DEVICE 81Y3675 , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.7.0-25.2 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
138173
Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200eR2 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mgag200.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 96383 | ||||||||
| Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04 | |||||||||
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| Broadcom® BCM5719 X4 PCI Express® Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 251575 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 1c032cbbf8f4cb203bdc23d80846b9cc | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.137 | |||||||||
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| Lenovo ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 236751 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c96d2df516f3a67f3960bb982a2a0b3d | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 07.701.17.00-rc1 | |||||||||
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| Intel C612 Chipset (DH82029 PCH) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ahci.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017 | Driver Size: 72591 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 3469a12a768d6bacc7a451a8ac50c8e7 | |||||||||
| Driver Version: 3.0 | |||||||||
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