 | System x3650 (7979-BFx)
Network Server IBM | 21 Oct 2010
133968 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 32 | 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 L5420 2.50 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | 6 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 631xESB / 632xESB ICH
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| 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) Hard Disk Configuration: RAID 5. |
| 2) 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} |
| 3) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 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 631xESB / 632xESB 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 | |||||||||
| 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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