 | System x3550 (7978-82x)
Network Server IBM | 03 Dec 2009
130870 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Other Products:
| Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 Support Pack 2 |
Product Description
Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers the high-speed quad-core processor 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.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS: | GFE145AUS - 1.15 |
| CPU: | Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5470 3.33 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | Serial 4 USB Ports 2 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: | 2 IBM 26K5840 36.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Panasonic UJDA770 , IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2-to-USB |
| USB Mouse: | Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/StarTech PS2-to-USB |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30 |
Config Notes
| 1) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 2) Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 1 |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 210128 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9f462115ad67e89b17221676e67ef9fc | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k-L | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 132200 | ||||||||
| Checksum: fc7b3b4951079b8e1e654908f3b8aaa7 | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 35152 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 0a75c8949fad26ec33a9e6907c42b6fb | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 21-Apr-2008 | File Size: 304640 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d | |||||||||
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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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