System x3500 M3 (7380-F2x)

System x3500 M3 (7380-F2x)
Network Server
FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., LTD.

12 Jun 2011
135783

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 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 AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M3 delivers outstanding six-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Tower
Mother Board Revision:	4
BIOS/uEFI:	Y4E150CUS - v1.08
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5649 2.53 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 32-bit/33MHz PCI 6 USB Ports Serial
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eV
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/PS2-to-USB connector
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1

Config Notes

VMware guest OS installation information can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_15.html
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 15 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 15 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 173128
	Checksum: 8ebfc17a3c242bbbf0e8881cb3c825c9

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 213872
	Checksum: 58a8ebe9877c6b4bb149c2d25f26f04d

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 34392
	Checksum: 1da23a8df6d6feaab4dcaf64c909c893

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 119472
	Checksum: 7ed0552718b84ed9cfdb5809356d5ec2

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:

FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., LTD.
No.6, Gaoxin Si Lu, Jiangxia , Wuhan, Hubei
Dongxin Lu, Guandong Industrial Park, Wuhan, Hubei
Wuhan 430076
CHINA
Voice: 008618986097270
Toll Free: 800-8800-787/400-8890-787

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