 | eServer BladeCenter LS20 Model 8850
Network Server IBM | 11 Jul 2005
81377 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Standard Server 8 |
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64® Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 8 |
Product Description
Powerful AMD-based blade server delivers new levels of flexibility and choice for your high performance computing applications. Designed to support the AMD Opteron family of single and dual core processors the LS20 blades are packed with features. When combined with the BladeCenter™ the LS20 delivers density without sacrificing processor performance or availability. For applications that are limited by memory performance the LS20 may bring sizeable performance gains.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 6 |
| BIOS: | 1.04 BKE118BUS |
| CPU: | 2 AMD Opteron™ model 252 |
| RAM: | 2048 MB |
| Bus Type: | 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic® Integrated 53C1030 , Ultra320 SCSI |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 IBM 32P0723 IBM 36.4GB 10K Ultra320 SCSI SL 68-pin HDD , Ultra320 SCSI |
| USB Floppy: | Teac FD-05PUB USB I/F |
| USB Keyboard: | IBM PPC I/F |
| USB Mouse: | IBM PPC I/F |
| Test Kit: | System Test Kit 4.2.6 |
Config Notes
| SLES8 SP4: System requires the following boot parameter for installation/operation: 'scsibeforeusb=1' |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Integrated BCM 5704s Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| LSI Logic® Integrated 53C1030 | |||||||||
| ATI® ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] | |||||||||
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
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