System x3650 (7979-BFx)

System x3650 (7979-BFx)
Network Server
Acer, Inc.

13 Apr 2011
135187

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
For constrained data center environments, the IBM® System x3650 offers unprecedented performance and reliability. The x3650 delivers rack-dense, quad-core computing power, an impressive 12 DIMM memory design and super-efficient network communication. Anywhere/anytime management keeps assets under control. The optional RSA II SlimLine card keeps slots free while expanding systems management functionality.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	8
BIOS/uEFI:	GGE149A-v1.19
CPU:	2 Intel Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5450 3.0 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 Serial
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	6 IBM 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS hot-swap HDD 26K5656 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GCC-4244N , IDE
USB Keyboard:	Belkin® PS2 to USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD one disk configured as RAID 0 and M.2 boot device with two SSDs configured as a RAID 0 device. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8 (parameters are required, but specific values can be changed).
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=182M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 SP3 FV guest. One of the internal ThinkSystem X710-DA2 10Gb SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 17-Mar-2008	Driver Size: 283804
	Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

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: 205868
	Checksum: 2185f64a36a97788607cb07405adbcae

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 103532
	Checksum: c3a16232c18407289b03922c172618c0

Intel Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 39428
	Checksum: f86e3d9238d68de4a56b7b5e2f9dbf7a

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:

Acer, Inc.
8F, No. 88, Sec. 1
Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsi Chih
Taipei Hsien 221
TAIWAN R.O.C.

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