 | System x3655 (7985-51x)
Network Server IBM | 11 Sep 2007
91500 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | |
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: | C2E128AUS v1.01 |
| CPU: | 2 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 2218 2.6 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X16 4 USB Ports Serial 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Broadcom®
HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 26k5654 36.4GB 10K 2.5" SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | LG GCC-4244N , IDE |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.1.0-0.28 |
Config Notes
| Drives are in a RAID5 configuration. |
| Windows Server 2003 R2 : Virtual Machine used the Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) which can be downloaded from the following URL: http://download.novell.com |
Referenced Bulletins
91479
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 142444 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 20120a49b8ac02c0b62608ca562bda2c | |||||||||
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| Broadcom® HT-1000 HyperTransport™ SystemI/O™ Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: serverworks.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 15172 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 6139c785c5a21e107e5fafd0d4f3d86d | |||||||||
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| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: sata_svw.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 15024 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4bda033a4c31633098a2382171e18d33 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 80224 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 589f712ba58fabded8f375da535ddfcc | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_dri.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-Sep-2006 | File Size: 2178256 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a4ebe7953fef8787e8a02230fd963802 | |||||||||
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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:
www.ibm.com