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| System x3550 M2 (7946-92x)
Network Server
Hitachi, Ltd. | 13 Apr 2011
135174 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
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SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 10 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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Windows Server 2008 |
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SP:
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 |
Arch:
32 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The IBM System x3550 M2 offers robust, proven technology and a flexible, energy-smart design. Delivering quad-core computing on the Intel® Xeon® X5570 processor with QuickPath Interconnect technology, this server delivers significant performance improvement per watt compared to previous generation servers by integrating low-wattage components for an energy-smart thermal profile. This server offers feature-rich systems management capabilities from power management to proactive hardware monitoring. The Integrated Management Module (IMM) increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes. The Virtual Media key option provides remote presence capabilities without taking up a slot on the planar, while IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ provides advanced power monitoring and notification.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 05 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | D6E145WUS - v1.06 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel
Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz |
| RAM: | 24 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X8
Serial
4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM
73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| USB Keyboard: | Belkin® Omni Cube™ 4-Port KVM w/PS2-to-USB |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-77.1 |
Config Notes
- Install: The SLES install was performed using a virtual DVD device.
- Kernel update: SLES11 SP3 kernel update 9237 (3.0.101-0.29 x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing. The updated igb.ko driver is provided as part of this patch.
- The maximum CPU cores or threads when hyper threading is enabled which can be allocated from LPAR is 240.
- The driver "htc-hfcldd" used during testing is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver was installed from the driver update disk(DUD) "dud-htc-hfcldd-4.11.18.3130.iso" and the driver package htc-hfcldd-kmp-default-4.11.18.3130_3.0.76_0.11-1.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm. To obtain DUD and the driver package, access to http://www.hitachi.co.jp/products/bladesymphony/download/driver/12346444.html. DUD can be used to install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server(SLES) to the SAN storage, and driver package can be installed after the SLES installation. The driver was forcibly loaded.
- This is a SAN boot only system.
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Adapters and Drivers
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| Matrox®
MGA G200 VE |
| | Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| | Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 173128 |
| | Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9 |
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| 2 Broadcom®
Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller |
| | Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 213872 |
| | Checksum: bc3782b437add8f184d780e6b803fa6d |
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| IBM
ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller |
| | Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko |
| | Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011 | Driver Size: 81616 |
| | Checksum: 9509a65506bec9a961293827c040268e |
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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:
Hitachi, Ltd.
1 Horiyamashita, Hadano-shi
Kanagawa-ken
259-1392
JAPAN
Voice: +81-463-88-8010
Fax: +81-463-87-7495
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