 | System x3550 (7978-82x)
Network Server IBM | 28 Jun 2010
132895 |
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 | |
| SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
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 2 PCI Express X8 4 USB Ports |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k-L , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 26K5697 36GB 15K 3.5" SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Panasonic UJDA770 , 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 0. |
| 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} |
| 4) KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 NICs. |
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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| 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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| IBM ServeRAID 8k-L | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 141912 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a0974efb52d83c07ab31155e623121df | |||||||||
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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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