 | NovaScale Blade B260+
Network Server BULL | 19 May 2008
101366 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 9 |
Product Description
The NovaScale® B260+ server enriches Bull’s current 2-socket offer. This NovaScale Blade server supports quad-core Intel® Xeon® series 5400. This NovaScale Blade server, provides an excellent scalability while preserving previous investments. It takes benefit from Bull NovaScale Master Management Suite for Blade Series which enables enterprises to lower the total cost of ownership.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS: | 1.04 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5450 3.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 4 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM 73.4GB 10K 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.2.0-0.7 |
Config Notes
| The X86_64 Installation and testing were done using the Update 2 CD. Please visit the following URL for the latest version - https://you.novell.com/update/x86_64/update/SUSE-SLES/9/PTF/a0a3e9a72ca54c52ef70c2446c713685 |
Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708S NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Feb-2007 | File Size: 164980 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 784628d978ddf09831b9d59578350e09 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 05-Feb-2007 | File Size: 46654 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 0d30ce69e3f822d1fce0c3addf401116 | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_dri.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 02-Dec-2005 | File Size: 1744093 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 9f310d3b6b7b7ef3022e24e84c5875cb | |||||||||
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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:
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