 | BladeCenter HS21 (8853-AC1)
Network Server IBM | 24 Aug 2010
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YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64® & Intel® EM64T® with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 10 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SLES 11 for x86 | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SLES 11 for AMD64 & EM64T | |||
| Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
Features up to two high-performance Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors. 1GB standard memory per blade. Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load balancing and fail-over features, up to twelve Ethernet ports per blade optional.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 6 |
| BIOS: | BCE142BUS-1.18 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Quad-Core Xeon® Processor L5430 2.66 GHz |
| RAM: | 9 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X1 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 36GB Non Hot-Swap 2.5" SFF SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) KVM: Maint kernel update 20100617 was installed in SLE11SP1 guests in order to provide updated virtio_net drivers. This update is available through normal maintenance channels. |
| 2) SLE10SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 nics. |
| 3) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
Referenced Bulletins
133189
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM5708S NetXtreme II GbE controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 118712 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 310235af077333686b82d4999c00a232 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-May-2010 | File Size: 104480 | ||||||||
| Checksum: d10fc288bccf2085b063ce9ad8f72687 | |||||||||
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| Matrox® MGA G200 VE | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 29-Mar-2010 | File Size: 720064 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 392237aeb0878c4fe6de3c5728a9c319 | |||||||||
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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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