System x3630 M3 (7377

System x3630 M3 (7377 - D2x)
Network Server
IBM

16 Jul 2013
139715

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
The IBM System x3630 M3 is a storage-rich dual-socket 2U server that integrates the features of traditional enterprise server offerings with affordable components to deliver value to cost-conscious buyers. Based on Intel® Xeon® processor technology, the x3630 M3 offers performance and storage capacity. It provides up to 28 TB of internal storage capacity, making it an good solution for storage-intensive workloads. The x3630 M3 helps keep your business running smoothly with availability features that include redundant cooling fan modules and hot-swap/redundant power supplies, RAID protection, and predictive failure analysis. The x3630 M3 also offers a comprehensive suite of systems management tools that help simplify management tasks.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS9
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: HSE122UUS v1.11 - (11/13/2012)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5645 2.40 GHz
RAM:	12 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 4 USB Ports PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200 VE
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	3 IBM 73 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5-inch SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

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.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
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 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
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.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® MGA G200 VE
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mga_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-Mar-2013	Driver Size: 190720
	Checksum: cbbe7ba695cb37835f3c7d4e79ec43c5
	Driver Version: 1.4.11

Intel 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (Dual Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 287167
	Checksum: 81bfd34fb256a6fa3cab6fc2f6e9ed3e
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 128775
	Checksum: 36c2f0e7dab4f4c97ea2e019d1fb44da
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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