System x3100 M3 (4253-42X)

System x3100 M3 (4253-42X)
Network Server
IBM

09 Mar 2010
131419

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86

Product Description
IBM® System x3100 M3 is a 5U ATX pedestal server targeted for small-to-medium enterprise applications. It complies with FCC Class A, RoHS (server requirements), and China RoHS, as well as industry smokeless requirements. The x3100 M3 is a follow-on to the x3100 M2 as an entry server of IBM xSeries. The x3100 M3 is a self-contained, high performance, and scalable in cost, configuration, performance, for pedestal server, using ECC or non-ECC DDR3 1GB, 2GB or 4GB UDIMMs, embedded SATA 3G/s controller and an embedded Gigabit Ethernet controller. In addition, it supports up to 4 X 3.5 inch fixed SATA DASD through on board Intel® Ibex Peak chipset.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	J2E115A - 4.6.3.4
CPU:	Intel Pentium® Processor G640 2.80 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Intel HD Graphics 2000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C216 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD5000AAKX-6 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HP DVD A DH16ABSH , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ w/StarTech PS2-to-USB
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 SLE11SP1 drivers are included with SLE11SP1. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com.
Current kernel and Xen maintenance updates were installed for this test configuration.
Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
System configured as 2-node scalable partition.
The following Xen hypervisor boot parameters were used for this test configuration: "dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=20"

Referenced Bulletins
135406

Adapters and Drivers


Intel HD Graphics 2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: intel_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 348992
	Checksum: 86029a57ebebda8ad0bdba1c7b9eb11b

Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet PHY (single port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 330536
	Checksum: 640eff661dfb9a34e21b31165c0c77f1

Intel Intel® PRO1000 Gigabit Server Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 330536
	Checksum: 640eff661dfb9a34e21b31165c0c77f1

Intel BD82C216 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ahci.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 52464
	Checksum: 8e7f557e5cfe98455deef90148417821

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:

IBM
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System x3100 M3 (4253-42X) - Yes Bulletin 131419 | SUSE