System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)

System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

18 Feb 2010
131333

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 with XEN

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 32	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 x3755 provides unmatched price, performance and energy efficiency with four six-core AMD Opteron™ processors and IBM's exclusive CPU Pass Thru card. This innovative card delivers near-linear performance and flexible configurations with headroom to grow in one-CPU increments—providing real savings while increasing performance.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	C8E132AUS - 1.04
CPU:	4 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X Serial PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N , IDE
USB Keyboard:	Belkin PS2 to USB KVM
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 Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 FV guests. The add-on 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller adapter was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=5.

Referenced Bulletins
142555

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 191660
	Checksum: 21eefdf9338d67a3a5c57812643298b6

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 99856
	Checksum: 1c5da8f2e6a19ccc23d62a55caa9c671

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 15136
	Checksum: cb34530b088019e4e2661799c4344a44

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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