System x3655 (7943-32U)

System x3655 (7943-32U)
Network Server
IBM

24 Nov 2009
130813

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM System x3655 provides you the confidence to deploy business applications that can help you get to market faster, build better products and better understand your customers. These applications require memory-intensive performance, and the x3655 delivers. With features such as quad-core processors, 16 available DIMMs with up to 64 GB of DDR II memory and robust I/O, customers can configure to meet their needs. And IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ delivers advanced control to help monitor power usage and achieve decreased infrastructure power and cooling costs. Grow your compute power without growing your data center. Keep it simple and protect your data with light path diagnostics, hot-swap and redundant components and the optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine. With the x3655, leverage AMD Opteron™ processor performance and IBM reliability to help improve your competitiveness. Select configurations of the x3655 are part of the IBM Express Portfolio™, designed and priced to meet the needs of mid-sized businesses. Reliable and easy to manage, Express models/configurations vary by country.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	5
BIOS/uEFI:	C9E111BUS-1.01
CPU:	2 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 2352 2.1 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS hot-swap HDD 26K5656 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GCC-4244N , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: RAID 0.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 210128
	Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 132200
	Checksum: fc7b3b4951079b8e1e654908f3b8aaa7

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 29848
	Checksum: 64301ae59ac93a4135458c7abe5920fc

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https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

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System x3655 (7943-32U) - Yes Bulletin 130813 | SUSE