 | eServer BladeCenter LS42 (7902-62x)
Network Server IBM | 05 Nov 2009
130639 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with XEN |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows Server 2008 | ||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SLES 11 for x86 | ||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | ||
| Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The IBM BladeCenter® LS42 is a 4-socket blade server delivering high performance for memory-intensive applications and virtualization. The LS42 features AMD Opteron™ processors, and improved memory and I/O performance—enabling IT managers to run demanding applications or consolidate workloads through virtualization.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS: | L8E151AUS-1.03 |
| CPU: | 4 AMD Six-Core AMD Opteron™ 8435 2.60 GHz |
| RAM: | 48 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X8 |
| 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 6.5.0-0.30 |
Config Notes
| Windows Server 2008: Virtual Machine used the Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) which can be downloaded from the following URL: http://download.novell.com |
| IOMMU was enabled in system BIOS for testing. |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 28-Feb-2009 | File Size: 206512 | ||||||||
| Checksum: f4d8b8a5474d621ba540f64cdc5df58c | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 28-Feb-2009 | File Size: 89736 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a305bf04c07867149c163920c96006ae | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 25-Feb-2009 | File Size: 605728 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 7206f6384c3ece573e2f36326d02bf0d | |||||||||
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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:
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