 | System x3755 (7163-5Rx)
Network Server IBM | 23 Mar 2009
123704 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
Product Description
The IBM System x3755 provides breakthrough entry pricing with two Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors delivering the performance necessary for general business computing. The innovative IBM CPU Pass Thru card delivers near linear performance and flexible configurations with headroom to grow, providing real savings without sacrificing performance. The x3755 excels at high-speed memory access through Xcelerated Memory Technology, running at a full 667 MHz even with fully-populated DIMMs. 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, mission-critical business applications and virtualized environments. Features such as the pull-down light path diagnostics panel and IBM Predictive Failure Analysis® allow quick and easy identification of component failures, helping to maximize uptime. With light path diagnostics for major components such as hard disk drives, memory and CPU, along with fans, voltage regulator modules 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: | 1.0 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | C8E120AUS - 1.02 |
| CPU: | 4 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 8360 SE 2.5 GHz |
| RAM: | 32 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 USB Ports 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 Serial |
| 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 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.20 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| ATI ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 574040 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 46d5e45a3889d793b71ba18cc3470c0e | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 185028 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 7167ced0f73fb67282fe8b1944f7fd5a | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 89560 | ||||||||
| Checksum: bec0d3e9d04ccb553e73fb90d71481e3 | |||||||||
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| ServerWorks HT-2100 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 11104 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 50d0f3fc7269f7d67cf94cb1fc216f9e | |||||||||
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