 | System x3550 (7978-BEx)
Network Server IBM | 18 May 2009
125549 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | ||
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
Product Description
Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers high-speed, dual-core and quad-core processors with blazing front-side bus speed. Optimized for exceptional application computing, the x3550 features a highly functional infrastructure that addresses more memory, lowers power consumption and provides dramatic systems performance increases. Standard integrated data protection with hardware RAID and 2.5" SAS hard disk drives keeps your data safe and readily available. Super-efficient network communication and hot-swap redundant power help keep your business humming at lower support costs.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | Pass 11 Planar |
| BIOS: | GFE141AUS - v1.12 |
| CPU: | Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5440 2.83 GHz |
| RAM: | 4 GB |
| Bus Type: | 4 USB Ports Serial 2 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID 8k-L , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 26K5697 36GB 15K 3.5" SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Panasonic UJDA770 , IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.17 |
Config Notes
| Drives are in a RAID 1 configuration. |
Referenced Bulletins
123647
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 09-Feb-2009 | File Size: 207328 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 94b1e10596bc55a09492eb454052e6f1 | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 09-Feb-2009 | File Size: 37888 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 75aaa1c61adc740fadf35e654bd6720c | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k-L | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 09-Feb-2009 | File Size: 125640 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f5737d647e9079e62f705e998ea5a9a9 | |||||||||
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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:
www.ibm.com