System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-22x)

System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-22x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

20 Sep 2010
133617

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLED 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 Server 2008
	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® System x3250 M3 is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well-suited for small to midsized businesses as well as large enterprises, whether for general-purpose workloads or specialized applications. Built with the Intel® Celeron® processor, the x3250 M3 has industry-leading computing capabilities in a small, 1U footprint. It also offers substantial memory and storage capacity to help you manage your data efficiently.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	GYE139TUS - 1.08
CPU:	Intel Celeron® Processor G1101 2.26 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD3400 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Western Digital WD2502ABYS 250GB 3.5 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	Panasonic UJDA782 DVD/CDRW , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/PS2-to-USB
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

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


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

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 215408
	Checksum: 46b0c12b8fedea1c9116caa2a58a0758

Intel BD3400 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 20-May-2010	Driver Size: 46680
	Checksum: d023f0afd755d8755871ba7f8b63c70a

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Global Business Unit
Fort Collins , CO 80528
Website: http://www.hp.com

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System x3250 M3 (4251/4252-22x) - Yes Bulletin 133617 | SUSE