 | System x3650 (7979-5Ax)
Network Server IBM | 24 Mar 2009
123894 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | ||
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
For constrained data center environments, the IBM System x3650 offers unprecedented performance and reliability. Optimized for up to eight-core processor performance, the x3650 delivers rack-dense, dual-core or quad-core computing power, an impressive 12 DIMM memory design and super-efficient network communication. Scalable memory and I/O design satisfy high-speed processing and reliability requirements, while integrated RAID safeguards data. Hot-swap power and cooling with Calibrated Vectored Cooling™ and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager help keep your server cool. The result? Run multiple workloads on a two-socket server—without running out of IT funds.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | Pass 8 Planar |
| BIOS: | GGE142AUS v1.13 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Dual-Core Xeon® Processor 5140 2.33 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | Serial 6 USB Ports 4 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k-L
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 26K5697 36GB 15K 3.5" SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG GCC-4244N , IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.15 |
Config Notes
| Drives are in a RAID 5 configuration. |
Referenced Bulletins
104838
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 27-Jan-2009 | File Size: 207328 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 29672e33154a792c39d4c20c27c3e7dc | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k-L | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 27-Jan-2009 | File Size: 125640 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 6c366b99dfcce04e380451a74973f75d | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 27-Jan-2009 | File Size: 37888 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c0cf94cb51829437ab061a3246d5e9f6 | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 13-Jan-2009 | File Size: 605728 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 59b603fa8fc7426523a81378da0c7953 | |||||||||
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The term YES CERTIFIED applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually YES CERTIFIED components may be exchanged for other YES CERTIFIED components. For more information on swapping YES CERTIFIED components, please access the following web page:
http://developer.novell.com/devres/system/policy/exchange.htm
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
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