System x3755 (7163

System x3755 (7163 - 72U/7BU)
Network Server
Aivres Systems Inc.

14 Aug 2013
140015

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 6 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
The IBM® System x3755 provides unmatched price, performance and energy efficiency with four six-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
BIOS/uEFI:	BIOS: C8E136AUS - v1.06 (07/26/2011)
CPU:	4 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	3 USB Ports Serial PCI Express X4 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8 2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X
Video Adapter:	ATI ES1000
Host Bus Adapter:	Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller , IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS)
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 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Installation Kit: The lenovo_servers_thinksystem-sle12sp2-x86_64-1.0.iso installation kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. This installation kit must be downloaded and used to start the SLES installation. To obtain the installation kit go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-ThinkSystem/sle-12-sp2-x86_64/1.0/.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=167M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: two M.2 boot drives RAID 1, two HDD RAID 0. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 FV guest. One of the X550-T 10GBase-T adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


ATI ES1000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: radeon_drv.so
	Driver Date: 30-May-2013	Driver Size: 1353208
	Checksum: 7939bb94a2b288e02b16400f05512ecf
	Driver Version: 6.14.6

Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE (Dual-port) controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 126799
	Checksum: 397a73b82a4464ecc498d721f8c4a10d
	Driver Version: 2.2.3

Broadcom® HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: ata_generic.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 13383
	Checksum: b5f9841b97a4caedbc95e25ae0e9de03
	Driver Version: 0.2.15

	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: pata_serverworks.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 17303
	Checksum: 9a30308107dbee6700e747f1ef70bfad
	Driver Version: 0.4.3

IBM ServeRAID 8k
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: aacraid.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 160319
	Checksum: 8345d5b39e2ae4140b821bfc9e591a90
	Driver Version: 1.2-0[29800]-ms

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:

Aivres Systems Inc.
1501 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas , CA 95035
Voice: 866-687-1430
Website: www.aivres.com

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