System x3755 (7163-72U)

System x3755 (7163-72U)
Network Server
Lenovo

19 May 2010
132059

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12

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:	2 PCI Express X8 Serial PCI Express X16 PCI Express X4 3 USB Ports 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-17.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Kdump (SLE12SP1): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=512M,high crashkernel=256M,low using YaST.
Serial port: The serial port is for system development purposes and not general user access. It was not tested during certification and therefore is not supported.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to one of the SLES 12 SP1 x86-64 guests. One of the Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T2 was used during this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 674136
	Checksum: 2c1bac9b82e02cca2d9e3bc2c8f1ff29

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 96036
	Checksum: 03071626050b2905e9d0c1d568216647

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 12248
	Checksum: 79f625ea557692996b382b84dba8440e

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 103620
	Checksum: ca53fa14bb085e3dae753fe3765fc138

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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System x3755 (7163-72U) - Yes Bulletin 132059 | SUSE