System x3850 M2 (7233-6Lx)

System x3850 M2 (7233-6Lx)
Network Server
IBM

21 Jul 2010
133106

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Engineered with the needs of enterprise organizations in mind, the IBM x3850 M2 provides a scalable, efficient and highly reliable solution. This 4th generation X-Architecture® enterprise server combines 64-bit performance in a balanced design. The x3850 M2 can help organizations meet business demands with confidence, and since many organizations require servers that expand as business grows, the x3850 M2 provides the flexibility to run more applications on the same piece of hardware. These features deliver an optimized solution for large database enterprise application and virtualization services.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	5
BIOS/uEFI:	A3E166AUS-1.12
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor X7460 2.66 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801IO ICH9DO , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-L463A CDRW DVD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

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/.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD and M.2 (boot) drives configured as separate RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in 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 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 96068
	Checksum: 0699df220c6b4b217af00bde5584fb35

Intel Integrated 82801IO ICH9DO
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 36488
	Checksum: 71be0740159edb0adc2351a454525632

IBM ServeRAID-MR10k Raid Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 61796
	Checksum: 6b4ebb43f1e25041d6269e62bf110d23

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
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