 | NovaScale Blade BL465
Network Server BULL | 04 Aug 2011
135971 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| Windows Server 2008 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 32 | Mode: Paravirtualized | |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The NovaScale BL465 server is a blade server based on fifth generation server architecture, delivering innovation with enhanced scalability, reliability, and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The BL465 supports up to two processors, including the latest generation of Intel Xeon E7-4800 processors. Two BL465 servers can be connected together for a high-performance single image with four processors and up to 512 GB of RAM in a blade form factor.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS: | HIE142VUS-1.40 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4870 2.40 GHz |
| RAM: | 64 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: | IBM
3.5-inch 300GB 15K SAS Hot-Swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) 2 IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) Maint kernel(4376) and Xen update(4129) were installed for testing. |
| 2) VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLE11SP1 drivers are included with SLE11SP1. The Windows 2008 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com. |
| 3) System configured as 1-node scalable partition. |
| 4) 300GB SAS drive was accessed through IBM SAS Expansion card. |
Referenced Bulletins
135526
Adapters and Drivers
| Broadcom® Integrated BCM5709S Dual-Port 1000/2500BASE-X PCI Express Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 14-Apr-2011 | File Size: 119872 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 506b2e6336c624aba953479446674837 | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 14-Apr-2011 | File Size: 105880 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 87c5c0f93702abdb4c6f36c3291fff97 | |||||||||
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| Matrox® MGA G200 VE | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 09-May-2010 | File Size: 190624 | ||||||||
| Checksum: febbdb06c6bac590a0a303be395a87d6 | |||||||||
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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:
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