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 | System x3550 (7978-B3x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company | 13 Apr 2011
135134 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN
Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Product Description
Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers the high-speed quad-core processor with blazing front-side bus speed. Optimized for exceptional application computing, the x3550 features a highly functional infrastructure that addresses more memory, lowers power consumption and provides dramatic systems performance increases.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | GFE149BUS - v1.17 |
| CPU: | Intel
Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5420 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | Serial 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | ATI
ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
26K5842 146.8GB 15K 3.5-inch SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Panasonic
UJDA770
, IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | Belkin® PS2-to-USB KVM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1 |
Config Notes
- Power management: System/Processor does NOT support fan thermal scaling.
- Kdump: In order to pass Kdump test the video frame buffer size needs to be changed to 32MB. The procedure is as follows 1) go to BIOS setup 2) find the "configure onboard device" under "advanced" 3) select onboard VGA configuration
4) change the frame buffer size to 64MB or 32 MB then save the changes and exit.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| ATI
ES1000 |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: radeon_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008 | Driver Size: 304640 |
| | Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 213872 |
| | Checksum: 9efc4684b649b5f1aa66d229adcbdb2f |
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| IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: aacraid.ko |
| | Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 122136 |
| | Checksum: 3c5037458a27c3bf2de577a15c21b548 |
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| Intel
Integrated 6321ESB ICH |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: piix.ko |
| | Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 22864 |
| | Checksum: 945dd40ec8207865a7b890f1291c43a8 |
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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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