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 | System x3655 (7985-61U)
Network Server
IBM | 11 Sep 2008
102538 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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Windows 2003 Server R2 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The IBM System x3655 provides you the confidence to deploy business applications that can help you get to market faster, build better products and better understand your customers. These applications require memory-intensive performance, and the x3655 delivers. With features such as dual-core processors, 16 available DIMMs with up to 64GB of DDR II memory and robust I/O, customers can configure to meet their needs. And IBM PowerExecutive™ delivers advanced control to help monitor power usage and achieve decreased infrastructure power and cooling costs. Grow your compute power without growing your data center. Keep it simple and protect your data with light path diagnostics, hot-swap and redundant components and the optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine. With the x3655, leverage AMD Opteron™ performance and IBM reliability to help improve your competitiveness.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1.0 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | C2E130BUS v1.04 |
| CPU: | 2 AMD
Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 2220 2.8 GHz |
| RAM: | 6 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 Serial 6 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom®
HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
80GB SATA (3.00 gb/s) 7.2k Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| CD/DVD: | LG
GCC-4244N
, IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.3.0-0.6 |
Config Notes
- Drives are in a RAID5 configuration.
- Windows Server 2003 R2 : Virtual Machine used the Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) which can be downloaded from the following URL: http://download.novell.com
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Referenced Bulletins
102520
Adapters and Drivers
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| ATI
ES1000 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 304640 |
| | Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706C) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 207752 |
| | Checksum: f42eae574b4a86231214cecdefde8880 |
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| IBM
ServeRAID 8k |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 112360 |
| | Checksum: b02cc6063eb59ec844144b8d25d437e5 |
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| Broadcom®
HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: sata_svw.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 17720 |
| | Checksum: 82cb080449826014c8edaa828737ccaf |
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| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: serverworks.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 17560 |
| | Checksum: ddd17e913a055f15b374f40ca414cab4 |
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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:
www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/virtualization/kvm
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