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 | System x3500 M2 (7839-32x)
Network Server
IBM | 12 Jun 2009
125987 |
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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Windows 2003 Server R2 |
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Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 |
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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 |
Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency. A long-life platform, the x3500 M2 provides exceptional stability in a volatile marketplace. Flexible configurations and a generous storage capacity enable emerging enterprise environments to meet the demands of today, and easily grow to accommodate additional applications as business requirements evolve.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1.0 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | Y4E125VUS - 1.00 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor E5520 2.26 GHz |
| RAM: | 48 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 32-bit/33MHz PCI PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8 Serial 6 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM
ServeRAID-MR10i
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM
73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | TSST
TS-H353B DVD-ROM
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21 |
Config Notes
- #1. Drives are in a RAID 5 configuration.
- #2. 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
- #3. System was configured and tested in Legacy BIOS mode.
- #4. VGA=mode-0x317 startup boot line parameter needs to be set to get reliable GUI performance on Dom 0 and VM's.
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Referenced Bulletins
125982
Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: fbdev_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 23984 |
| | Checksum: 51cc22089119a901912f6dec9ae0c1f4 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 207752 |
| | Checksum: f42eae574b4a86231214cecdefde8880 |
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| Intel
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 32768 |
| | Checksum: 0dcf29aab37385da623157287953cc5b |
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| IBM
ServeRAID-MR10i |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 06-May-2008 | Driver Size: 49688 |
| | Checksum: a8e8d4cdd911426a430f63f9e922c039 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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.ibm.com
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