 | System x3650 (7979-BFx)
Network Server IBM | 28 May 2010
132155 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | ||
| SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
For constrained data center environments, the IBM® System x3650 offers unprecedented performance and reliability. The x3650 delivers rack-dense, quad-core computing power, an impressive 12 DIMM memory design and super-efficient network communication.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 8 |
| BIOS: | GGE146BUS - 1.17 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X5450 3.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | 6 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM
ServeRAID 8k
, Serial SCSI (SAS) Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH , IDE |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 6 IBM 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS hot-swap HDD 26K5656 , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG GCC-4244N , IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | Cybex® AutoView Commander™ KVM w/PS2-to-USB |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-21.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. |
| 2) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 3) All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE11SP1 drivers are included with SLE11SP1. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com. |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 11-May-2010 | File Size: 119648 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 408319e91665510728c6e2af6f65c032 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 11-May-2010 | File Size: 143392 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 32f4a43922e5c436d0630e7349995bbd | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 11-May-2010 | File Size: 46680 | ||||||||
| Checksum: fde68ebefc093229f860141e3127721d | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 29-Mar-2010 | File Size: 720064 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319 | |||||||||
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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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