System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x)

System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

29 Oct 2009
130596

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
The IBM® System x3200 M3 offers enhanced performance to help you take on the dynamic challenges of running IT with an emphasis on security, simplicity, efficiency and reliability—delivered at the right price in a single-socket tower server.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Mini Tower
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	GYE120TUS-1.00
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor X3430 2.40 GHz
RAM:	12 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X1 2 32-bit/33MHz PCI 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Ibex Peak (PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 Western Digital WD2502ABYS 250GB 3.5 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.28

Config Notes

System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 SP7 64-bit virtual machine installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and configured with up to 960 CPUs and 16384 GB of memory.
Broadcom recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 313456 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=313456.
Broadcom recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 306577 at https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=306577.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 SP7 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2009	Driver Size: 195712
	Checksum: 6331aec7499fb76b0e10d7e1ce7e7ae3

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 173960
	Checksum: 44b0d2cccdf9984610922b80b59a0772

Intel Ibex Peak (PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 37888
	Checksum: f81281db8221f758e7111cd80015aebe

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x) - Yes Bulletin 130596 | SUSE