System x3755 (7163-DRU/DBU)

System x3755 (7163-DRU/DBU)
Network Server
IBM

30 Oct 2011
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM® System x3755 provides unmatched price, performance and energy efficiency with four quad-core AMD Opteron™ processors and IBM's exclusive CPU Pass Thru card. This innovative card delivers near-linear performance and flexible configurations with headroom to grow in one-CPU increments—providing real savings while increasing performance.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	2.0
BIOS/uEFI:	C8E132AUS - v1.04
CPU:	4 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 8384 2.7 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X Serial 3 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HLDS CD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-T10N , IDE
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.0-80.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed using external USB connected DVD drive; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1.
Integrated network: only two of the four ethernet adapters/ports on the I350-AM4 quad-port network controller are enabled on this system.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where the network adapter was given to one of the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guests. One of the embedded Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).

Referenced Bulletins
141303

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 22-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 304640
	Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 224440
	Checksum: 6eda307ca91ab4bcce2a84fc6d15dd32

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 04-Mar-2011	Driver Size: 133512
	Checksum: 8c5d6c568ada83ba0153cba85bc7cb1a

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 21-Feb-2011	Driver Size: 29848
	Checksum: a251ffd29e1e0ea9104e7ead94047285

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For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

IBM
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