 | System x3655 (7943-32U)
Network Server IBM | 03 Dec 2009
130876 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
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: | PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 Serial 6 USB Ports |
| 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
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Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
| ATI ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 304640 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009 | Driver Size: 199728 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f8cba4c1576c82aacb7a5e8f438d0c4c | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009 | Driver Size: 120696 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 5e37f3e96f44f049c5aba5af76bc974a | |||||||||
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| Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: serverworks.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009 | Driver Size: 17560 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c9b00f86b79a7deb218288731f82b893 | |||||||||
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