System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-AC1)

System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-AC1)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

24 Nov 2009
130798

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 3

Product Description
The IBM® System x3250 M3 is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well-suited for small to mid-sized businesses as well as large enterprises, whether for general-purpose workloads or specialized applications.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	GYE120TUS v1.00
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor X3470 2.93 GHz
RAM:	6 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eV
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Ibex Peak (PCH) , Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJDA782 DVD/CDRW , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® Autoview Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2 to USB
USB Mouse:	Cybex® Autoview Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2 to USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Drive Configuration: RAID 1. System was configured as 1-node scalable partition. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=10. Desktop GUI was removed (init 3) during overnight stress testing.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=227M,high crashkernel=152M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 12 guest. The Intel® PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server adapter was used for this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
144105

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 174104
	Checksum: 3fd8cbe764d6a2ef73172f99be1aebd7

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 159288
	Checksum: a95d036efa119d497d30cb31d202918e

Intel Ibex Peak (PCH)
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 38728
	Checksum: 0570b3a7035f99e94edbcf12f33799db

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 72512
	Checksum: 862180cb35de13a97fa8cb62832043b3

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:

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

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