 | novascale® BL265
Network Server BULL | 13 Sep 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):
| 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
The BL265 provides high performance with support for the Intel® Xeon® processor, high-speed I/O, and support for high memory capacity and fast memory throughput. The BL265 has improved performance over previous generation blades.
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 GB 10k 2.5 Hot-Swap SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
| 1) KVM Guest: The following updated virtio_net drivers were used and are required on the KVM SLE11SP1 guests: novell-virtio_net-kmp-pae-1.0_2.6.32.12_0.7-0.i586.rpm and 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} |
| 2) KVM Guest: The SLE10SP3 KVM guest was configured with virtual e1000 nics. |
| 3) Install: PXE Boot, OS Installed via Network. |
| 4) Note that for full support on the listed SLES 10 guest OS a special support contract may be necessary. The system is supported on the most current SLES 10 service pack release. |
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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