 | System x3650 (7979-BFx)
Network Server IBM | 08 Jun 2010
132688 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| 2 SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | 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 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 2) Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. |
| 3) KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH} |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708C NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 118712 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 141912 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a0974efb52d83c07ab31155e623121df | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: ata_piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 46680 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 02ccb110f6b9828baf0c7a9e8544bcb0 | |||||||||
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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
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