 | BladeCenter HS21 (8853-R2x)
Network Server IBM | 21 Oct 2010
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YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 3 for SLES 10 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32pae | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
Features high-performance Intel® Xeon® Processors. 1GB standard memory per blade. Two 1-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: | BCE143AUS-1.19 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Dual-Core Xeon® Processor X5260 3.33 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 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
15.8GB 2.5-inch Solid State Drive
, Serial ATA (SATA) IBM 73.4GB 10K 2.5 , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 2) KVM: SLES 11 SP1 kernel update 20100920 was used in SLES 11 SP1 guests to provide updated virtio_nic drivers. |
| 3) KVM: SLES 10 SP3 guest was configured with virtual e1000 nics. |
Referenced Bulletins
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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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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| 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:
www.ibm.com