 | System x3655 (7985-D2x)
Network Server IBM | 05 Feb 2007
87840 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| Open Enterprise Server Support Pack 2 for Open Enterprise Server |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 9 |
Other Products:
| Novell® iManager 2.5 | Novell iFolder® 2.1 |
| Novell iPrint 5.0 | eDirectory™ 8.7 |
| Apache2 Web Server 2.0 |
Product Description
The IBM System x3655 provides you the confidence to deploy business applications that can help you get to market faster, build better products and better understand your customers. These applications require memory-intensive performance, and the x3655 delivers. With features such as dual-core processors, 16 available DIMMs with up to 64GB of DDR II memory and robust I/O, customers can configure to meet their needs. And IBM PowerExecutive™ delivers advanced control to help monitor power usage and achieve decreased infrastructure power and cooling costs. Grow your compute power without growing your data center. Keep it simple and protect your data with light path diagnostics, hot-swap and redundant components and the optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine. With the x3655, leverage AMD Opteron™ performance and IBM reliability to help improve your competitiveness.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1.0 |
| BIOS: | C2E122AUS - 1.0 |
| CPU: | 2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 2218 2.6 GHz |
| RAM: | 8192 MB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X16 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® Integrated RN50 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Broadcom®
HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS hot-swap HDD 26K5656 , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG GCC-4244N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.0.16 |
Config Notes
| #1. SLES9 SP3, i386 - aacraid.ko is an updated driver. Please see the following URL for the latest version - http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=SERV-RAID&brandind=5000008 |
| #2. Drives are in a RAID 5 configuration. |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 12-Dec-2005 | File Size: 155456 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a5ad3d3b6af0b33c76da4129e97fb915 | |||||||||
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| Broadcom® HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: sata_svw.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 12-Dec-2005 | File Size: 26547 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 98ea2ff488d7817d759878755293b2f7 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 09-Mar-2006 | File Size: 113264 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 2e55f5ccaa90ad38759f536154f28092 | |||||||||
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| ATI® Integrated RN50 | |||||||||
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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