 | System x3500 (7977-H2x)
Network Server IBM | 24 Sep 2007
91643 |
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 x3500 delivers unprecedented performance and reliability for demanding distributed environments that rely on 24x7 availability of mission-critical applications. With up to eight-core processor performance at lower power consumption per core, the x3500 offers leading-edge capacity and high-speed I/O scalability. A long-life platform with 24-month availability, the x3500 minimizes deployment and support concerns. With the x3500 take advantage of virtualization. Deploy an infrastructure with less hardware that supports the same—or more—applications with lower hardware support costs.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Tower |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1.0 |
| BIOS: | SPE151AUS - 1.51 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5355 2.66 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Bus Type: | Serial Parallel Port 4 USB Ports 3 PCI Express X8 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 32-bit/33MHz PCI |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 3 IBM 146GB 15K 3.5" SAS Hot-Swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS GSA-H10N , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM |
| USB Mouse: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.1.0-0.28 |
Config Notes
| 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
91633
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Intergrated BCM 5721Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 132256 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 3afb3945527575a70129e21f3fca8f43 | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 20108 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4ee8b97252093372a0bb5e14cac52678 | |||||||||
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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