System x3550 M2 (7946

System x3550 M2 (7946 - 92x/94x)
Network Server
Fujitsu

07 Mar 2012
137066

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLED 12

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 4 for SLES 10	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2008
	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM System x3550 M2 offers robust, proven technology and a flexible, energy-smart design. Delivering multi-core computing on the Intel® Xeon® processor with QuickPath Interconnect technology, this server delivers significant performance improvement per watt compared to previous generation servers by integrating low-wattage components for an energy-smart thermal profile. This server offers feature-rich systems management capabilities from power management to proactive hardware monitoring. The Integrated Management Module (IMM) increases server availability by continuously monitoring your system and notifying you of potential system failures or changes. The Virtual Media key option provides remote presence capabilities without taking up a slot on the planar, while IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ provides advanced power monitoring and notification.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	DEST-05
BIOS/uEFI:	D6E154WUS - v1.13
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	2 PCI Express X8 Serial 4 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

System was configured as 2-node scalable partition.
Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
Kdump: Yast2 - Kernel kdump - kdump memory was increased from 128 to 256 MB for kdump to function.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe)
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=5G dom0_max_vcpus=4.

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 190688
	Checksum: 9ec99a5b6850be782df01c0b7663d67f

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709C Dual-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T TOE PCI Express® Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 123816
	Checksum: 2f69b2abfaa2ede64effbcee386ffc55

IBM ServeRAID-BR10i SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mptsas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 109848
	Checksum: aa0978068884b89801e8e51a076c2379

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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
TSP CLI E SW OSE
Bürgermeister-Ulrich-Strasse 100
Augsburg 86199
GERMANY
Voice: +49 (0)821 804-3321

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