System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x)

System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x)
Network Server
IBM

29 Oct 2009
130598

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

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 32-bit/33MHz PCI PCI Express X1 2 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
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 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141338

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 201412
	Checksum: 82bb390e7cef098e3160a754caeb9408

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 132188
	Checksum: 3994224304a58637f2de01f1d46174da

Intel Ibex Peak (PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009	Driver Size: 26820
	Checksum: 7a92dea337a702c11024dde1a0356d5c

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:

IBM
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System x3200 M3 (7328-C1x) - Yes Bulletin 130598 | SUSE