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| System x3500 (7977-72x)
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd. | 30 Jun 2009
126074 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
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.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | Refresh 5 planar |
| BIOS/uEFI: | SPE168AUS - 1.68 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Dual-Core Xeon® Processor 5140 2.33 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | Parallel Port
32-bit/33MHz PCI
2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
3 PCI Express X8
4 USB Ports
Serial |
| 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 6.4.0-0.21 |
Config Notes
- This is a SAN boot only system.
- Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
- The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.12.18.3146.iso" and the driver package htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.12.18.3146_3.12.28_4-1.sles12.x86_64.rpm. To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346613.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation.
- The driver "ixgbevf" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver ixgbe is used with the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 and the driver package name is "intel-ixgbevf-2.16.4-2.1.x86_64.rpm" and "intel-ixgbevf-kmp-default-2.16.4_k3.12.28_4-2.1.x86_64.rpm". This driver package can be downloaded and installed after the SLES12 install. To obtain the driver go to: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346835.html
- The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.
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Referenced Bulletins
144803
Adapters and Drivers
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| 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®
Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 137772 |
| | Checksum: 63a05f2c76f13ca2f3d740564bac746e |
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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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| Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 26820 |
| | Checksum: 7a92dea337a702c11024dde1a0356d5c |
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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:
Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken
259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495
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