 | System x3500 (7977-R2x)
Network Server IBM | 05 Aug 2008
102179 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The IBM System x3500 delivers unprecedented performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With up to eight-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns. With the x3500 take advantage of virtualization. Deploy an infrastructure with less hardware that supports the same—or more—applications with lower hardware support costs.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | Refresh 5 Planar |
| BIOS/uEFI: | SPE165AUS - 1.65 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5450 3.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 4 USB Ports Serial Parallel Port 3 PCI Express X8 32-bit/33MHz PCI 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X |
| Video Adapter: | ATI ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 6321ESB ICH , IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 3 IBM 146 GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS GSA-H10N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.3.0-0.6 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
102079
Adapters and Drivers
| ATI ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008 | Driver Size: 283804 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 143300 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 8c2d27c111b60cd7f4cb3489e85e1601 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 93380 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 65830cb2e69e4ddf2fe15eec53bb9d39 | |||||||||
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| Intel Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 19928 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9d45fa772300921a3593b3c6ed763082 | |||||||||
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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
IBM
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