System x3500 M2 (7839-82x)

System x3500 M2 (7839-82x)
Network Server
Lenovo

28 Jun 2010
132881

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	Y4E145VUS - 1.03
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 32-bit/33MHz PCI PCI Express X16 5 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Belkin® PS2-to-USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=165M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: it is required that the hypervisor is booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=8G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 118712
	Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: 02ccb110f6b9828baf0c7a9e8544bcb0

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 86816
	Checksum: e134db428c0a19236892c62123cdb779

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

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