 | System x3500 M2 (7839-62x)
Network Server IBM | 19 Jun 2009
126044 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
Designed to meet the highest levels of dependability, the IBM® System x3500 M2 delivers outstanding quad-core performance and availability to help keep mission-critical applications and virtualized environments up and running. Redundant components to reduce points of failure and light path diagnostics provide resiliency, while integrated support features like a remote presence key optimize systems management efficiency. A long-life platform, the x3500 M2 provides exceptional stability in a volatile marketplace. Flexible configurations and a generous storage capacity enable emerging enterprise environments to meet the demands of today, and easily grow to accommodate additional applications as business requirements evolve.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 2.0 |
| BIOS: | Y4E125VUS - 1.00 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor X5550 2.66 GHz |
| RAM: | 48 GB |
| Bus Type: | 6 USB Ports Serial 5 PCI Express X8 PCI Express X16 32-bit/33MHz PCI |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 82801JIB ICH10
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM ServeRAID-MR10i , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 8 IBM 73.4 GB 15K RPM SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | TSST TS-H353B DVD-ROM , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21 |
Config Notes
| #1. Drives are in a RAID 5 configuration. |
| #2. Dom 0 boot time parameter of "vga=mode-0x317" needs to be specified for proper GUI display. |
| #3. SLES10 SP2 update kernel 60-0.34 and Xen patchset 16718_18 were installed for testing. |
| #4. System was configured and tested in Legacy BIOS mode. |
| #5. Windows Server 2003 R2 : Virtual Machine used the Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) which can be downloaded from the following URL: http://download.novell.com |
Referenced Bulletins
126033
Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200 VE | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: fbdev_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 22-Apr-2008 | File Size: 18328 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 57f8381d876d1d46b1306a2e881dfe75 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709c NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-Jan-2009 | File Size: 196960 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 678901973214abf20df37597ef7cd7a0 | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 82801JIB ICH10 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 19-Jan-2009 | File Size: 26216 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4bdbaa553a800b61e7e1861cf87dd929 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID-MR10i | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: megaraid_sas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-Jan-2009 | File Size: 40260 | ||||||||
| Checksum: e4bbcdf788c5c43aafe086f3f1d044d8 | |||||||||
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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
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