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 | PRIMERGY® RX300 S3
Network Server
IBM | 24 Nov 2009
130787 |
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 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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Windows 2003 Server R2 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
PRIMERGY RX300 S3 rack server packs the capacity of a fully-featured departmental server into a rack design only 2 U in height. It is offering the breakthrough performance features of leading edge Dual- or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5000 sequence CPUs embedded in a powerful design with an 8-port SAS controller and fast PCIe links and PCI-X busses. Expandability is covering for nearly any workload: 32 GB FBD667 memory, up to 6 SAS / SATA or up to 12x 2.5 inch SAS hard disk drives, and sufficient free PCI slots for heavy I/O requirements. To guarantee its high availability level, PRIMERGY RX300 S3 delivers: redundant hot-plug power supplies and fans option, Hot-pluggable hard disk drives and PCIe cards and onboard RAID. Special attention is given to secure memory data, with SDDC and memory mirroring option. The new Cool-safe™ technology secures optimal temperatures even at peak workloads, such ensuring longevity and extended Mean Time Between Failures. With this built-in failsafe functionality PRIMERGY RX300 S3 is suited ideally to meet demands for continuous operation in business critical environments, running data bases, terminal services, business applications or consolidation and virtual machine tasks.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | D2119 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | 4.06 Rev. 1.16.2119 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5335 2 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X PCI Express X8 2 PCI Express X4 4 USB Ports Serial |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200e |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic
LSISAS1068
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate®
ST9146802SS
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS
GSA-T20N
, IDE |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.28 |
Config Notes
- Install: The SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server install was performed using a network install method.
- Headless configuration - no graphics adapter. System configured using IBM remote Hardware Management Console (HMC) for graphics, keyboard and mouse.
- Power management: The System/Processor dynamic CPU frequency scaling functionality in SLES is not supported on POWER7+ as this functionality is provided by the POWER7+ hardware itself.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200e |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 25-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 195712 |
| | Checksum: aa323e9b7243810830f170a73c0337cf |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| | Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 170240 |
| | Checksum: 6c992818a67018926b779e13b1cb2040 |
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| LSI Logic
LSISAS1068 |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 52504 |
| | Checksum: e42e63adbf355f5d3a37a3c6a609ac9f |
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| Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 28-Feb-2009 | Driver Size: 37888 |
| | Checksum: f81281db8221f758e7111cd80015aebe |
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