 | eServer BladeCenter HS21 (8853-A1x)
Network Server IBM | 27 Apr 2009
124961 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 11 for x86 | ||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | ||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| Windows Server 2008 | ||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
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: | BSE137BUS-1.14 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor E5310 1.60 GHz |
| RAM: | 9 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 6.4.0-0.15 |
Config Notes
| All FV guests were configured with PV drivers. |
| Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
Referenced Bulletins
104841
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708S NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 27-Jan-2009 | File Size: 207328 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 29672e33154a792c39d4c20c27c3e7dc | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 27-Jan-2009 | File Size: 89744 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 42f377a499b4fa7de90596576e380b76 | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 13-Jan-2009 | File Size: 605728 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 59b603fa8fc7426523a81378da0c7953 | |||||||||
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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