 | System x3500 (7977-Q4x)
Network Server IBM | 07 Jan 2010
131070 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SLES 10 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The IBM System x3500 delivers unprecedented performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With up to eight-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 6 |
| BIOS: | SPE169AUS-1.69 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5460 3.16 GHz |
| RAM: | 20 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X4 2 PCI Express X8 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 32-bit/33MHz PCI 4 USB Ports Serial |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 3 IBM
146GB 15K 3.5" SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 73.4GB 15K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS GSA-H10N , IDE |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.5.0-0.30 |
Config Notes
| 1) All FV guests were tested with PV drivers. The PV drivers are included in SLE10 SP3, and the Windows 2008 PV drivers are available on http://download.novell.com |
| 2) Hard Disk Configuration: Raid 1 and Raid 5 |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 161120 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 7e6a7e40e839abe860f6b6e5e18294db | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 22864 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f75a147de92d992a7c7982e7e45a7576 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Sep-2009 | File Size: 120696 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 5e37f3e96f44f049c5aba5af76bc974a | |||||||||
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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
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