Altos G540 M2
Network Server
Acer, Inc.
17 May 2009
125498

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN

Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
  Windows 2003 Server R2
  Support Pack:  Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003     Arch:  32     Mode:  Fully Virtualized
  NetWare 6.5
  Support Pack:  Support Pack 8 for NetWare 6.5     Arch:  32     Mode:  Paravirtualized
  SLES 10 for AMD64 & EM64T
  Support Pack:  Service Pack 2 for SLES 10     Arch:  64     Mode:  Fully Virtualized

Product Description
Altos G540 M2 is an outstanding pedestal Dual-socket server equipping with two new generation Intel® Xeon® X5570 processors, DDR3 memory technology, PCI Express Gen2, dual onboard Gigabit Ethernet controllers with Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (IOAT ), VT-d and iSCSI boot and integrated BMC and KVM over IP remote management feature.

Tested Configuration:
Computer Type:Tower
Mother Board Revision:GA-7TESH1-RH
BIOS:Phoenix P03
CPU:2 Intel®  Xeon® Processor X5570 2.93 GHz
RAM:24 GB
Bus Type:6 USB Ports
Serial
3 PCI Express X8
32-Bit PCI
PCI Express X16
Video Adapter:Matrox®  MGA G200e
Host Bus Adapter:Intel®  Intergrated 82801JIR (ICH10R) , Serial ATA (SATA)
Hard Disk Drive:Hitachi GST  Travelstar 5K500.B HTS545050B9A300 , Serial ATA (SATA)
CD/DVD:HLDS  GH10N , Serial ATA (SATA)
Floppy Type:NONE
Test Kit:System Certification Kit 6.4.0-0.21


Config Notes


Adapters and Drivers
2 Intel®  82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Driver Type: LAN DriverFile Name: igb.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 116216
Checksum: 20acf909a146e85ce07528dc0e2b107e

Intel®  Intergrated 82801JIR (ICH10R)
Driver Type: HBA DriverFile Name: ata_piix.ko
File Date: 28-Feb-2009File Size: 37888
Checksum: f61b4d99290f0e0787976ed38fd5ba04

Matrox®  MGA G200e
Driver Type: Video DriverFile Name: mga_drv.so
File Date: 13-Jan-2009File Size: 195712
Checksum: aa323e9b7243810830f170a73c0337cf


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:

Acer, Inc.
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Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsi Chih
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