System x3650 M4 BD (5466

System x3650 M4 BD (5466 - B2x)
Network Server
Lenovo

21 Jan 2014
141032

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 32	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64
	SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 11	Arch: 64	Mode: Paravirtualized
Windows Server 2012 R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Purpose-built for Big Data, the new IBM® System x3650 M4 BD rack server addresses the marketplace’s growing demand for rapid analysis of enormous volumes of data. This 2U two socket server offers outstanding performance and memory speed, abundant, low cost-per-terabyte storage, and energy efficient features for seamlessly powering your Big Data.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS3
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: YOE102DUS - v1.00 (12/19/2013)
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Processor E5-2609 v2 2.50 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	2 IBM 500 GB 7.2K SATA Simple-Swap HDD , Serial ATA (SATA) 2 IBM 500GB Hot-Swap SATA HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external 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.

Referenced Bulletins
141338

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

Intel Ethernet Controller I350-AM4 (Quad Port)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: igb.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 284183
	Checksum: 868a25aec4f8c4f8a2141f6529959581
	Driver Version: 4.1.2-k

IBM ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: mpt2sas.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 270903
	Checksum: 66952d113f446bf2a707ace5a0a7fe9d
	Driver Version: 14.100.00.00

IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 07-Nov-2013	Driver Size: 127927
	Checksum: 85fbdbd2f84bd2cfaa040a3eda3cf769
	Driver Version: 06.506.00.00-rc1

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

569002

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