NovaScale Blade B240
Network Server
BULL
11 Sep 2008
102529

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86     Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 10


Product Description
The NovaScale B240 server is the first mono-socket blade server on the market. It incorporates the dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Processors 3000 Series. This infrastructure or application server is designed for enterprises with tight budgets to deploy IT infrastructures and critical applications. The NovaScale B240 server it the ideal server as well for hospitals, local governments and affiliates of large enterprises requiring both availability and ease of deployment for scalable IT infrastructures.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:2
BIOS:N1E130AUS-1.01
CPU:Intel®  Dual-Core Xeon® Processor E3113 3.0 GHz
RAM:12 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:2 IBM  73 GB 10k 2.5" Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.3.0-0.6


Config Notes

Referenced Bulletins
102248

Adapters and Drivers
ATI®  ES1000
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: radeon_drv.so
File Date: 17-Mar-2008File Size: 283804
Checksum: 54e340ac765f3dcceb97d352ece9f560

2 Broadcom®  Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: tg3.ko
File Date: 06-May-2008File Size: 139452
Checksum: 62412b73c4af26eb37714629d1e5dcab

LSI Logic®  SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: mptsas.ko
File Date: 06-May-2008File Size: 56280
Checksum: a65ec876a6ba20b717e39be80780a334


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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