System x3850 X6 (3837-B3x) - Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT

System x3850 X6 (3837-B3x) - Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT
Network Server
Lenovo

07 Mar 2014
141294

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

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

Product Description
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Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS 5
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: A8E103QUS - v1.00 (01/25/2014)
CPU:	4 Intel Xeon® Processor E7-4850 v2 2.30 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 7 USB Ports 5 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® MGA G200eR
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM 300 GB 10K 6 Gbps SAS 2.5-inch SFF HS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.2.0-5.10

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter must be increased from the default value for kdump to function correctly.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.exe).
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. The Broadcom BCM5720 GbE adapter was used during this testing.
Maintenance update: SLES 12 Xen kernel update 333 is required and was installed on the host during certification testing. SLES 12 kernel update 333 was installed on the SLES 12 FV guest, the SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10103 was installed on SLES 11 SP3 x86_64 FV guest. 64-bit guests were tested with a maximum memory configuration of 64GB.

Referenced Bulletins
142828

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

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 242863
	Checksum: f89cba187ed6394b55c6f3545b981f06
	Driver Version: 3.129

Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: ixgbe.ko
	Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013	Driver Size: 349319
	Checksum: 6b985656ab852761e6d44809093f0150
	Driver Version: 3.11.33-k

IBM ServeRAID M5210 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

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 x3850 X6 (3837-B3x) - Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT - Yes Bulletin 141294 | SUSE