System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)

System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)
Network Server
Fujitsu

13 Apr 2011
135000

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	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 increments—providing real savings while increasing performance.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	C8E132AUS - v1.04
CPU:	4 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X Serial 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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 7.0-80.1

Config Notes

VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by the operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
VMware recommends to install deployPkg with open-vm-tools if creating a Template http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075048
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP1 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a virtual machine configured with up to 1011 GB of memory on a SLES 12 SP1 x86-64 guest.
Virtual machine guest: System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP1 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 64 CPUs.
Requires ESXi 5.1 U3 or higher update level.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 205040
	Checksum: 31d365bceac4987bde82ebfd51118d60

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 15136
	Checksum: e966831041b6ca264445d0224ae018d6

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 101244
	Checksum: 3621012cf3e19f254c8763a948d041ce

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY
Voice: +49 (0)5251 525 2537
Website: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/index.html

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