System x3250 M4 (2583-72x)

System x3250 M4 (2583-72x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

30 Oct 2011
136317

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel® Itanium® Processor

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
The System x3250 M4 single-socket 1U rack server is designed for small businesses and first-time server buyers looking for a solution to improve business efficiency. It delivers several IBM® innovative features in a compact 1U form factor with a competitive price. The IBM System x3250 M4 provides next-generation performance in an innovative and compact design with flexible configuration options, built-in security, and systems management capabilities. This server is designed for infrastructure applications such as firewall, security, disaster recovery, name server, authentication, credit card processing, email, domain controller, and more. It leverages the next-generation quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor technology.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS10
BIOS/uEFI:	JQE128TUS - v1.00
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1270 3.40 GHz
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel BD82C204 PCH , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	Western Digital WD2502ABYS 250GB 3.5 SATA , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	HLDS GT30N Slim Super Multi DVD Rewriter , Serial ATA (SATA)
USB Keyboard:	Belkin® PS2 to USB KVM
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-16.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP2 x86-64 guest. One of the embedded Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP2 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.0.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200e
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: vesa_drv.so
	Driver Date: 05-Sep-2009	Driver Size: 28072
	Checksum: 0924b0f658357f94e06521969e66bc6b

Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 215088
	Checksum: b391fbf380fd100b84015380705ef5f5

Intel BD82C204 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 34392
	Checksum: 1da23a8df6d6feaab4dcaf64c909c893

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
StorageWorks Division
11445 Compaq Center Dr. W
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com/workstations

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System x3250 M4 (2583-72x) - Yes Bulletin 136317 | SUSE