 | eServer BladeCenter HS21 (8853-GNx)
Network Server IBM | 05 Aug 2008
102173 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | |
| SLES 10 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for SLES 10 | |
Product Description
* Features up to two high-performance Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors * 1GB standard memory per blade * Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load balancing and failover features, up to twelve Ethernet ports per blade optional
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 6 |
| BIOS: | BCE135AUS-1.12 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor L5408 2.13 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 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 6.3.0-0.6 |
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
102080
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708S) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 06-May-2008 | File Size: 207752 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f42eae574b4a86231214cecdefde8880 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 06-May-2008 | File Size: 55808 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 94fed3f36010065655cf2b92c67ff600 | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 21-Apr-2008 | File Size: 304640 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 4532b0e93d2ab5a98ae54beefd43e51d | |||||||||
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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