System x3650 M2 (7947-42x)

System x3650 M2 (7947-42x)
Network Server
Lenovo

23 Apr 2009
124931

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10
Windows 2003 Server R2
	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003

Product Description
The IBM System x3650 M2 offers robust and proven technology and a flexible design. Delivering quad-core computing on Intel® Xeon® processors with QuickPath Interconnect technology, this powerful 2U server delivers significant performance improvement per watt compared to previous generation servers by integrating low-wattage components for an energy-smart thermal profile.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	R
BIOS/uEFI:	D6E123TUS-1.00
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor L5520 2.26 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , IDE IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJDA782 DVD/CDRW , IDE
Floppy Type:	USB 1.44
USB Floppy:	IBM USB Floppy
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=263M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: two separate RAID 0 devices.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to one of the SLES 15 guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146876

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 23984
	Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 207752
	Checksum: f42eae574b4a86231214cecdefde8880

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 32768
	Checksum: 0dcf29aab37385da623157287953cc5b

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 49688
	Checksum: a8e8d4cdd911426a430f63f9e922c039

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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