System x3950 M2 (7233-6Mx)

System x3950 M2 (7233-6Mx) - 1TB
Network Server
IBM

08 Jun 2010
132686

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 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 2003 Server R2
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Engineered with the needs of enterprise orginizations in mind, the IBM x3950 M2 provides a scalable, efficient and highly reliable solution. the x3950 M2 can help organizations meet business demands with confidence,and since many organizations requre servers that expand as business grows, the x3950 M2 provides the flexibility to run more applications on the same piece of hardware.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2
BIOS/uEFI:	A3E166TUS-1.12
CPU:	16 Intel Xeon® Processor X7460 2.66 GHz
RAM:	1 TB
Ports and Bus Types:	4 USB Ports 7 PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 26k5654 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
USB Keyboard:	IBM SK-8835
USB Mouse:	IBM SK-8835
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-17.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using an external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
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).
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 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. The embedded, Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port), adapter was used during this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update, slessp3-xen-201307-8063, is required and was installed during certification testing.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0.

Referenced Bulletins
140246

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 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 119648
	Checksum: 26ac1b061a7c06cf31fe4505bc66c932

IBM ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 87304
	Checksum: 4b912ce3d71eff482ffc1283bab5c7f0

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:
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