 | System x3550 (7978-MAx)
Network Server IBM | 13 Mar 2008
100773 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers high-speed, dual-core and quad-core processors with blazing front-side bus speed. Optimized for exceptional application computing, the x3550 features a highly functional infrastructure that addresses more memory, lowers power consumption and provides dramatic systems performance increases.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | Pass 11 Planar |
| BIOS/uEFI: | GFE136BUS - 1.09 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Dual-Core Xeon® Processor E5205 1.86 GHz |
| RAM: | 4 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 6321ESB ICH , IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 73.4GB 10K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG GCC-4244N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.2.1-0.1 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
92486
Adapters and Drivers
| ATI ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 304784 | ||||||||
| Checksum: dfc38037d6edc16b3e52bd238dc2d041 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 151008 | ||||||||
| Checksum: af71859591fa25d4382512497ff510d3 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k-L | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 98504 | ||||||||
| Checksum: cbdf291a1d668ee31cd0a55fbc2f3655 | |||||||||
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| Intel Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 22784 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 5bef324157428a37bb3ddf0a8181d32b | |||||||||
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The term SUSE YES 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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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