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 | System x3100 M3 (4253-D2x)
Network Server
IBM | 13 Apr 2011
135088 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Product Description
Often small-to-medium sized businesses have limited IT budget and resources, and rely on partners or multi-talented employees to help manage the companys network. Business needs for efficiency improvement and retention of critical data require the use of a server that is easy to get up and running quickly and is dependable. You need to squeeze as much as possible out of your IT dollars, while saving cost on features not needed in an SMB environment. The IBM® System x3100 M3 is an ideal first server to meet those business needs. It was built for speed, yet eliminates costly design features found in general-purpose servers that are unnecessary for smaller businesses. The single-socket x3100 M3 supports the a quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor, to offer impressive computing power in a mini-tower design that can fit under a desk.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | J2E115AUS-v1.15 (4.6.3.4) |
| CPU: | Intel
Xeon® Processor X3450 2.67 GHz |
| RAM: | 4 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | Serial 6 USB Ports 32-Bit PCI PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 |
| Video Adapter: | ASPEED
AST2050 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel
BD3400 PCH
, Serial ATA (SATA) LSI Logic
SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Western Digital
WD2502ABYS 250GB 3.5 SATA
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| CD/DVD: | TSST
TS-H353B DVD-ROM
, Serial ATA (SATA) |
| USB Keyboard: | Belkin® PS2 to USB KVM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1 |
Config Notes
- Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
- Hard disk configuration: JBOD
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
- Maintenance updates: Xen 8479 (bnc#836239) and Linux Kernel 9329 updates are required and were installed during certification testing.
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16"
- System was scaled up to 8-socket by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector.
- 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
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Referenced Bulletins
141694
Adapters and Drivers
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| ASPEED
AST2050 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: ast_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009 | Driver Size: 40904 |
| | Checksum: 4e1ce73a67257ac7f39d11eb49347265 |
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| Broadcom®
NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708c) |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 205868 |
| | Checksum: 28ef1938e340f0d23f6c3fb5b45da426 |
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| Intel
82574L Gigabit Ethernet |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: e1000e.ko |
| | Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 188192 |
| | Checksum: a04a338573803aabc2f5bf222de48c98 |
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| Intel
BD3400 PCH |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ata_piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 39428 |
| | Checksum: 550a56a5bd3d7a6571f10f250e7154a4 |
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| LSI Logic
SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 76456 |
| | Checksum: 6b26e948ef9651a3e676cb2a5ad64698 |
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