System x3755 (7163-7BU)

System x3755 (7163-7BU)
Network Server
IBM

02 Jun 2010
132551

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	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:	3 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X 3 USB Ports Serial
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
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-9.1

Config Notes

VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html.
VMware recommends to install deployPkg with open-vm-tools if creating a Template http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075048.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 12 guest.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010	Driver Size: 720064
	Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010	Driver Size: 119648
	Checksum: e67bc277b2be1e89a7adc2b9682777fa

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010	Driver Size: 143296
	Checksum: eb97358160256b4d9421e7e0b6d6362c

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010	Driver Size: 17016
	Checksum: 60e62d59ebb2baf9e52b92ad3cf02451

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
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com

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System x3755 (7163-7BU) - Yes Bulletin 132551 | SUSE