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 | System x3850 X6 (3837-C1x) - Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 10GbE SFP+
Network Server
Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 12 Jun 2014
141597 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
Other Products:
SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 7 - Compute Node |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
32pae |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
2
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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SP:
Service Pack 3 for SLES 11 |
Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
In organizations in every industry, big data and analytics workloads deliver the actionable insight needed to drive faster decision making. You need systems that you can confidently deploy to run your mission-critical applications, decrease operating costs and support your cloud computing plans. New IBM® X6 servers featuring exclusive IBM X-Architecture® innovations and Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v2 processors can help you meet these challenges with revolutionary levels of processor and storage performance, memory capacity and resiliency.
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: | 4 PCI Express X8 5 PCI Express X16 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
- Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
- PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where a network adapter was given to the SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. An added network adapter, Intel® PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller, was used in this testing.
- SLES Virtual Machine Guests Setting: Cache mode was set to "none" for NIC tests to succeed. This setting is found under Virtual machine details > Disk > Advance Options > Performance Options.
- 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 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe), and the virtio network drivers were used during testing.
- Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5.
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Referenced Bulletins
139866
Adapters and Drivers
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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 |
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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 |
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Broadcom®
NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2x.ko |
| Driver Date: 14-Jun-2013 | Driver Size: 817159 |
| Checksum: 4ef6b752babf41cd6b5d2db62c272850 |
| Driver Version: 1.78.00-0 |
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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 |
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The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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 Enterprise
1701 E Mossy Oaks Rd
Spring
, TX
77389
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