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| System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)
Network Server
IBM | 22 Jul 2010
133118 |
SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified with the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
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 incrementsproviding real savings while increasing performance.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | 2.0 |
BIOS/uEFI: | C8E132AUS - 1.04 |
CPU: | 4 AMD
Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz |
RAM: | 32 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X Serial 3 USB Ports PCI Express X4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 |
Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
, IDE |
Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
CD/DVD: | HLDS
CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N
, IDE |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
- Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network.
- KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH}
- KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 NICs.
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Adapters and Drivers
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ATI
ES1000 |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 29-Mar-2010 | Driver Size: 720064 |
| Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319 |
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2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 118712 |
| Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232 |
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IBM
ServeRAID 8k |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 141912 |
| Checksum: a0974efb52d83c07ab31155e623121df |
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Broadcom®
HT1000 Legacy IDE controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko |
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 17016 |
| Checksum: 2fbf20c090abcc9d4a3c75ea039a7a95 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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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