System x3100 M3 (4253-D2x)

System x3100 M3 (4253-D2x)
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Apr 2011
135089

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 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: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

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 company’s 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

VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), using the virtio driver for testing.
Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given, one each, to a SLES 11 SP3 i586 and SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. Two of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters were used for this testing.
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.

Referenced Bulletins
141626

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2050
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 40904
	Checksum: 4e1ce73a67257ac7f39d11eb49347265

Broadcom® NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708c)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 205040
	Checksum: 31d365bceac4987bde82ebfd51118d60

Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 188192
	Checksum: a04a338573803aabc2f5bf222de48c98

Intel BD3400 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 27740
	Checksum: c65e5ad16f7c1d24f115bf7a381e119b

LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 71568
	Checksum: 28ab0e411a8ba10dd7072d7761f1b2ff

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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