 | NovaScale Blade B240
Network Server BULL | 11 Sep 2008
102535 |
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 | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for 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: | 1 |
| BIOS: | 1.00 |
| CPU: | Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor X3363 2.83 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
| 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
101212
Adapters and Drivers
| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 282956 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 30583d3acb547010951fd988b65fdf87 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: tg3.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 132256 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 3afb3945527575a70129e21f3fca8f43 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 36136 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 6dd8cd00c364614eb96f1da3e084f199 | |||||||||
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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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