 | System x3755 (7163-5Rx)
Network Server IBM | 10 Jun 2008
101740 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The IBM System x3755 provides breakthrough performance for general business computing at an entry price point with Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors. With the innovative IBM CPU Pass Thru card, delivering near linear performance and flexible configurations, the x3755 is uniquely advantaged in the industry. The x3755 excels at high-speed memory access—critical for mission-critical business applications and virtualized environments. Delivering the memory speed through Xcelerated Memory Technology, the x3755 helps achieve low latency and high-speed access to memory data, especially for large memory configurations. It delivers up to 25% faster memory throughput, resulting in up to 15% better system performance. The x3755 provides outstanding memory price performance for general purpose computing environments. Ease of use and management features, such as the pull-down light path diagnostics panel, allow quick and easy identification of component failures, helping to maximize uptime. The x3755 provides some of the most comprehensive alerting with IBM Predictive Failure Analysis®. With light path diagnostics for major components such as hard disk drives, memory and CPU, along with fans, voltage regulator modules (VRMs) and power supplies, the x3755 delivers a full set of alerts to help keep your system running at maximum efficiency.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 2.0 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | C8E108AUS - 1.00 |
| CPU: | 4 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 8360 SE 2.5 GHz |
| RAM: | 64 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | Serial PCI Express X16 PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 3 USB Ports 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X |
| Video Adapter: | ATI ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) ServerWorks HT-2100 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller , IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.3.0-0.6 |
Config Notes
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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® BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE 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 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 98504 | ||||||||
| Checksum: cbdf291a1d668ee31cd0a55fbc2f3655 | |||||||||
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| ServerWorks HT-2100 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: serverworks.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-May-2007 | Driver Size: 17584 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 42ca722bf8dbb34a91376e78e4b93303 | |||||||||
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