 | novascale™ BL265+
Network Server BULL | 31 Aug 2011
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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):
| 3 SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 | |||
| SP: Service Pack 1 for SLES 11 | Arch: 64 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | |
Product Description
The BULL novascale BL265+ has been designed specifically for use in virtualized environments. With 18 DIMM slots, the BL265+ allows you to fit more and larger virtual machines per blade. Durable solid-state drives and hardware RAID-0 and -1 provide outstanding reliability when virtualizing multiple workloads on a single blade. An embedded hypervisor enables easy deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualization solutions. Combine the BL265+ with Virtual Fabric for Bull Blade Chassis for a flexible, easy, fast and reliable I/O solution that helps reduce cost and complexity.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS: | P9E146VUS-1.07 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel® Xeon® Processor X5670 2.93 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Bus Type: | PCI Express X8 |
| Video Adapter: | Matrox® MGA G200 VE |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic® SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM
73.4GB 10K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD
, Serial SCSI (SAS) IBM 50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 2) KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-default-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.x86_64.rpm. The drivers can be downloaded and installed after the SLES KVM Guest install. The drivers are PLDP compliant and available at: http://drivers.suse.com/novell/kvm-guest-kernel-fix/sle11sp1/install/suse/{ARCH} |
Referenced Bulletins
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Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet 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: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 12-Apr-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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