System x3850 X5 (7143-C1U)

System x3850 X5 (7143-C1U)
Network Server
IBM

18 May 2011
135598

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Flexible, balanced design for scalability, memory expansion Fifth-generation IBM® X-Architecture® chipset design combined with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 product line.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	3
BIOS/uEFI:	G0E152WUS-1.50
CPU:	8 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-8850 2.0 GHz
RAM:	512 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	7 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 11 x86_64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE adapters was used in this testing.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Hard drive configuration: RAID 6. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10549 (x86-64) is required and was installed during certification 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.
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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-2.2.exe).
SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso 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: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 09-May-2010	Driver Size: 190624
	Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 118904
	Checksum: ea9aea1b87d1f51abda43dd0c85ee9b4

IBM ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 87152
	Checksum: df01b15a4836e2c9f440a8aac692d930

IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 28-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 87152
	Checksum: df01b15a4836e2c9f440a8aac692d930

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:

IBM
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