eServer BladeCenter HC10 (7996-5Ax)
Workstation
IBM
15 Sep 2008
102619

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  Novell® Linux Desktop 9 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T®, Powered by SUSE® LINUX     Service Pack 4 for Novell® Linux Desktop 9

Product Description
The HC10 is designed to provide hardware-based graphics compression and encryption that delivers high performance and security. Encrypted USB signals are transmitted transparently over the TCP/IP network to the IBM CP20 workstation connection device. No additional software or device drivers are required by customers for encryption and transmission of graphics and USB information over the network.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Blade Module
Mother Board Revision:4
BIOS:DOE124AUS-1.24
CPU:Intel®  Core™2 Duo Processor E6700 2.66 GHz
RAM:2 GB
Bus Type:PCI Express X1
Video Adapter:NVIDIA®  Quadro FX 1600M
Desktop Effect Enabled:No
Power Management:No
Host Bus Adapter:Intel®  Integrated 82801HB ICH8 , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:IBM  80GB 7200RPM SATA 2.5" NHS HDD , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.3.0-0.6

Config Notes
NLD9-SP4 (x86_64): Remote audio of CP20 connection device was not tested.
NLD9-SP4 (x86_64): IBM CP20 connection device was used for remote access during testing.
NLD9-SP4 (x86_64): nvidia driver v173.14.12 was downloaded and installed from www.nvidia.com to support 3D graphics.


Adapters and Drivers
Broadcom®  Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5708S)
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: bnx2.ko
File Date: 13-Nov-2007File Size: 195808
Checksum: ab62ef36f4fd2cc4327c4065896b6579

Intel®  Integrated 82801HB ICH8
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: ata_piix.ko
File Date: 13-Nov-2007File Size: 41888
Checksum: 07b2522742f0e9ca1972885a301cf6e3

NVIDIA®  Quadro FX 1600M
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: nvidia_drv.so
File Date: 29-Aug-2008File Size: 3935864
Checksum: 1e32ca9e1efba1c524098240d62c75df


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