System x3500 (7977-J2x)

System x3500 (7977-J2x)
Network Server
Lenovo

02 Jun 2010
132606

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 x3500 delivers performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With quad-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	5
BIOS/uEFI:	SPE169AUS-1.69
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5420 2.50 GHz
RAM:	20 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 32-bit/33MHz PCI 3 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) 3 IBM 146 GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GSA-H10N , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-25.1

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: JBOD
System was scaled up to 4-socket by joining two x880 X6 with 4S scalability connector.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 guest. One of the embedded Lenovo Embedded Four-Port 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=32G dom0_max_vcpus=16".

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® Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 160704
	Checksum: feb93af2e88e348b47ae559e3c666b31

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 103620
	Checksum: fb792ab795d60d22ed5f8e6353f1c1ce

Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 36488
	Checksum: 71be0740159edb0adc2351a454525632

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:

Lenovo
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System x3500 (7977-J2x) - Yes Bulletin 132606 | SUSE