System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)

System x3755 (7163-72U/7BU)
Network Server
New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.

13 Apr 2011
135023

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

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 AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	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:	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 7.0-80.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Referenced Bulletins
141558

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

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: 213872
	Checksum: 51b8050ac2eabb072a3f668ae22feb5b

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 122136
	Checksum: 2ec5cc02b52023e147681ccd42959c06

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 17560
	Checksum: d3329c5a907db491bdb2c08757804fee

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:

New H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
466 Changhe Road
Binjiang District
Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
CHINA

569021

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