System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-32x)

System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-32x)
Network Server
Oracle America Inc.

18 Feb 2010
131347

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Product Description
The IBM® System x3250 M3 offers enhanced performance to help you take on the dynamic challenges of running IT with an emphasis on security, simplicity, efficiency and reliability—delivered at the right price in a single-socket rackmount server.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	GYE129TUS-1.02
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2660 2.20 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Seagate® ST9450405SS , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 6e4febcdc166990d8ac5cfdb0dfbd20d

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM2 (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 181220
	Checksum: c1f926cca8966d519968c2be1a02ceca

LSI Logic MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 91432
	Checksum: 4347a5d366074680614ca1f187029e3d

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:

Oracle America Inc.
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores , CA 94065

558776

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