System x3250 M4 (2583

System x3250 M4 (2583 - 72x)
Network Server
Fujitsu

01 Jul 2013
139175

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for AMD64 & Intel64

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
Windows Server 2012
	Arch: 64	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 quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor technology.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS10
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: JQE149AUS v1.02 - (06/22/2012)
CPU:	Intel Xeon® Processor E3-1270 3.40 GHz
RAM:	8 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X4
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
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)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.9

Config Notes

Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8063 x86-64 is required and was installed during certification testing.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=4G dom0_max_vcpus=4".
VM Driver Pack: All FV 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).
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 one of the host network adapters 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.

Referenced Bulletins
140213

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200eR
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

2 Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: e1000e.ko
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 383879
	Checksum: c1b92829fc4be419c4edf9de0eef9b75
	Driver Version: 2.1.4-k

Intel BD82C204 PCH
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 13-May-2013	Driver Size: 13383
	Checksum: 7d322bb61ae24cc9d2c703cd2eab68f8
	Driver Version: 0.2.15

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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