System x3650 M3 (7945-J2x/J4x/J6x)

System x3650 M3 (7945-J2x/J4x/J6x)
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Apr 2011
135256

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

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: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® x3650 M3 is an Energy-smart design that provides optimal computing performance per watt. Improved service with a flexible design that is easy to deploy, integrate and manage. Manage risk with resilient architectures and virtualized environments. Power-optimized performance compared to previous generation 2-socket servers. Helps lower operational costs with innovative energy-smart 2U design.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	VICT-02
BIOS/uEFI:	D6E150UUS - v1.10
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5650 2.66 GHz
RAM:	12 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200VE
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 Hitachi GST HUC101473CSS300 , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	LG GCC-T20N , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Belkin® PS2-to-USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-77.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader ans system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=4 (parameters are required but the specific values can be changed).
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 integrated Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP3): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=158M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
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


Matrox® MGA G200VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 174712
	Checksum: 34ada57de469915d1dc3833aa1f21893

Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 205040
	Checksum: 02975a34803a8ad5e6e3a51022524e36

Intel Integrated 82801JI ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 27740
	Checksum: 14a51013c4bb2123dba6d835e8992c8d

IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 102256
	Checksum: 00231305fdc0bb43085c2c000fc3a103

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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