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| System x3850 X6 (E7 v4 with DDR3) (6241)
Network Server
Lenovo | 20 Jun 2016
144706 |
SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified with the following products:
Operating Systems:
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
SP:
Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 12 |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 |
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Mode:
Paravirtualized |
SP:
Service Pack 4 for SLES 11 |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
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Arch:
64 |
Mode:
Fully Virtualized |
Product Description
The difference between the X3850 X6 and the X3950 X6 configurations would be that the X3850 X6 systems are 1 Chassis servers, whereas the X3950 X6 server would be a 2 Chassis server interconnected via a special midplane that contains QPI, PCIe, Power, Clocks, Sideband, USB connections for both chassis.
Tested Configuration:
Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
Mother Board Revision: | PASS 5 |
BIOS/uEFI: | UEFI: A9E131VUS - v3.00 (05/16/2016) |
CPU: | 4 Intel
Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4 2.20 GHz |
RAM: | 64 GB |
Ports and Bus Types: | 2 PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 7 USB Ports Serial |
Video Adapter: | Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Hard Disk Drive: | Lenovo
1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5 inch G3HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Lenovo
900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5-inch G3HS HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) |
Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.5.0-39.1 |
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: separate RAID 0.
- VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 and SLES 12 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.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.
- Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters "dom0_mem=24G dom0_max_vcpus=12".
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Referenced Bulletins
144681
Adapters and Drivers
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Matrox®
MGA G200eR |
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so |
| Driver Date: 18-May-2015 | Driver Size: 190720 |
| Checksum: eeec94d7ef85cad092007144321a8b30 |
| Driver Version: 1.4.11 |
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Intel
X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ixgbe.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 389271 |
| Checksum: 18484aecabf093a01db022b01af4ee62 |
| Driver Version: 3.19.1-k |
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Broadcom®
BCM5720 dual-port PCI Express® GbE Network Interface Controller |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: tg3.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 249855 |
| Checksum: ae578038dd279fc8a5d308c89405ecfb |
| Driver Version: 3.137 |
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Intel
I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter |
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: igb.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 331743 |
| Checksum: bd3bda441dc8bdc93c60c1c55ae13198 |
| Driver Version: 5.2.15-k |
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IBM
ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller |
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: megaraid_sas.ko |
| Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015 | Driver Size: 174663 |
| Checksum: 26fb3287ebd4ebf32728215c3f59e443 |
| Driver Version: 06.806.08.00-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:
Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com
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