System x3500 M3 (7380

System x3500 M3 (7380 - B2x)
Network Server
Lenovo

08 Mar 2012
137096

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M3 delivers outstanding multi-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:	Y4E154AUS - v1.10
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5606 2.13 GHz
RAM:	32 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 32-bit/33MHz PCI Serial 6 USB Ports
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eV
Host Bus Adapter:	Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 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: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.

Referenced Bulletins
141510

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eV
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 04-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 204964
	Checksum: 6e4febcdc166990d8ac5cfdb0dfbd20d

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: 98396
	Checksum: 1dcd1b4d8cfd5f75622511a382cf2152

Intel Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_piix.ko
	Driver Date: 16-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 37352
	Checksum: 3987de7b0d2772eeb9777d87cf553475

IBM ServeRAID-MR10i
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 15-Feb-2012	Driver Size: 91432
	Checksum: 4347a5d366074680614ca1f187029e3d

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:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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System x3500 M3 (7380 - B2x) - Yes Bulletin 137096 | SUSE