System x3630 M4 (7158-D3x)

System x3630 M4 (7158-D3x)
Network Server
Hewlett-Packard Company

25 Mar 2014
141374

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10

Other Products:

Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):

Windows 2003 Server R2
	Arch: 64	Mode: Fully Virtualized	SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10	Arch: 32pae	Mode: Paravirtualized
SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86
	SP: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10	Arch: 32	Mode: Fully Virtualized

Product Description
The IBM® System x3630 M4 server offers a cost-effective high-capacity storage solution with exceptional energy-smart design, leadership virtualization, and powerful systems management. It supports the Intel® Xeon® E5 processor and high-density memory designs with twelve DDR3 DIMM slots. This 2U server consolidates storage and server into one system, offers easy management, and saves floor space and power consumption, costing less money than traditional enterprise offerings. Designed with redundancy, flexible subsystems, and a wider range of configuration options, the x3630 M4 also offers an innovative Feature on Demand (FoD) design for an easier upgrade path.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	PASS7
BIOS/uEFI:	UEFI: BEE136CUS - v1.60 - (01/23/2014)
CPU:	2 AMD Quad-Core Opteron™ Model 2389 2.90GHz
RAM:	24 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	Serial 6 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X16 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	ASPEED AST2000
Host Bus Adapter:	NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:	8 Intel X25-E , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:	TSST TS-TS632A , IDE
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 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=211M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe), the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual function network adapter was given to one of the SLES 12 FV guests. One of the Intel X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146594

Adapters and Drivers


ASPEED AST2000
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: ast_drv.so
	Driver Date: 21-Apr-2008	Driver Size: 49080
	Checksum: cc27bbc39f5b8aef80382c7e0398b0cb

4 NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: forcedeth.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 43688
	Checksum: 473c217f876cb9ae047614672a698f19

NVIDIA® MCP55 Pro
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: sata_nv.ko
	Driver Date: 06-May-2008	Driver Size: 36168
	Checksum: 3f187f3ee7ad9981e00b6b8a3718bcbc

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:

Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com

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