System x3850 X6 (3837-C1x) - Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 10GbaseT

System x3850 X6 (3837-C1x) - Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 10GbaseT
Network Server
Positivo Informatica S.A.

10 Jun 2014
141535

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 for x86 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLED 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
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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 E7-4860 v2 2.60 GHz
RAM:	768 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	5 PCI Express X16 4 PCI Express X8 Serial 7 USB Ports
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

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/.
Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: HDD and M.2 (boot) drives configured as separate RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=16.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=172M,high crashkernel=122M,low using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the integrated Ethernet Connection X722 for 1GbE adapters was used in this testing.

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® NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: bnx2x.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 819567
	Checksum: 0c18252be9e5ca9d5e716ed715064d2e
	Driver Version: 1.78.00-0

Broadcom® BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 243991
	Checksum: 4dab303daacaf43d8914c71f4c7292bb
	Driver Version: 3.129

IBM ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jan-2014	Driver Size: 127927
	Checksum: c10dec39fd64f3c26f9c39cefe3c8fbc
	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/

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