 | SGI® Altix® 3300
Network Server SGI | 30 Jun 2004
75441 |
Tested and Approved with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 8 for Intel® Itanium® Processor Family |
Product Description
SGI® Altix® 3300
Test Configuration
| Product/Model: | SGI® Altix® 3300 |
| CD/DVD: | Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. SR-8588 , ATAPI |
| CPU: | 16 Intel® Itanium® 2 1.3 GHz |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate
ST336753LC
, Ultra320 SCSI 7 Seagate ST336753FC , FibreChannel |
| Host Bus Adapter: | QLogic
QLA2310 / QLA2310F 64-Bit Fibre Channel Adapter.
, FibreChannel SGI IO9 (Qlogic ISP 12160A) , Ultra160 SCSI |
| BIOS: | EFI Spec Rev. 1.02, Vendor SGI®, Rev. 12.38; SAL Spec Rev. 2.09, SAL_A Rev 3.13, SAL_B Rev 3.13; PAL_A Rev 7.31, PAL_B Rev 7.59, PAL_B Rev 5.37 |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Test Kit: | SUSE Certification Suite |
Config Notes
| SLES 8 - SP3 (IPF) NEEDED: Boot medium for initial installation: United Linux 1.0 SP3 CD. Used installation via VNC (see SLES-8 documentation) and local DVD-ROM drive. NEEDED: Kernel boot parameter "hwprobe=-bios" to prevent hardware probing tools from crashing the system. |
| Mass Storage: 1 SGI® TP9100 (D-brick2) in FC-AL technology, equipped with: 2 FC loops including one Fibre Channel Controller each 7x SGI® ST373453FC, FC hard drive, 73 GByte, showing up as Ultra-320 SCSI drives |
Adapters and Drivers
| Adapter | Driver Type | File Name | Date | Size | OS Version | ||||
| QLogic QLA2310 / QLA2310F 64-Bit Fibre Channel Adapter. | |||||||||
| SGI IO9 (Qlogic ISP 12160A) | |||||||||
| 8 Broadcom® Integrated BCM 5701 Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
The term Tested and Approved applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. Components including LAN adapters, host bus adapters and other individually Tested and Approved components may be exchanged for other Tested and Approved components. For more information on swapping Tested and Approved 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:
SGI
1500 Crittenden Lane
Mountain View , CA 94043
Voice: 650-960-1980