 | System x3500 (7977-M2x)
Network Server IBM | 17 Dec 2007
94997 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Other Products:
| Novell® Open Enterprise Server 2 |
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: | SPE162AUS - 1.62 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5440 2.83 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Bus Type: | 32-bit/33MHz PCI 2 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X 3 PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | Intel®
Integrated 6321ESB ICH
, IDE LSI Logic® LSISAS1068E , Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM ServeRAID 8k , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 4 IBM 146 GB 10K 2.5" SFF HOT-SWAP , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | Matsushita MatshitaDVD-RAM SW-9587S , IDE |
| USB Floppy: | IBM |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.2.0-0.8 |
Config Notes
| #1. Drives are in a RAID 5 configuration attached to the 8k controller. |
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: 152216 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c8c42cc2c53bbc71d8f49ed6b1408cef | |||||||||
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| Intel® Integrated 6321ESB ICH | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: piix.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 35072 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 50afaf27507907da31b2636bef0c7bc7 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® LSISAS1068E | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 53184 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 1255689342cffe202a242e82e27883f4 | |||||||||
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| IBM ServeRAID 8k | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: aacraid.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 110144 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 6e844c6e99a8c1fc111db3a8cfc506b3 | |||||||||
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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
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IBM
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