 | eServer BladeCenter LS41 (7972-8Bx)
Network Server IBM | 09 Oct 2007
91969 |
YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 with XEN Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Virtual Machines (Guests OS):
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32pae | Mode: Paravirtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | |
| SLES 10 for x86 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 1 for SLES 10 | |
| Windows 2003 Server R2 | |||
| Arch: 32 | Mode: Fully Virtualized | Support Pack: Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003 | |
Product Description
* Features up to four high-performance, AMD Dual-Core Opteron processors * Up to two internal SAS hard disk drives * 2GB standard/64GB maximum memory per blade * Two TOE-enabled Gigabit Ethernet controllers standard, with load-balancing and failover features * Expansion capabilities for Fibre Channel, Ethernet, Myrinet and InfiniBand
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS: | 1.04 |
| CPU: | 4 AMD Dual-Core Opteron™ Model 8222 3.0 GHz |
| RAM: | 8 GB |
| Bus Type: | 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X |
| Video Adapter: | ATI® ES1000 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | LSI Logic® SAS1064 PCI-X Fusion-MPT , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | IBM 36GB Non Hot-Swap 2.5" SFF SAS HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.2.0-0.2 |
Config Notes
| Windows Server 2003 R2 : Virtual Machine used the Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) which can be downloaded from the following URL: http://download.novell.com |
| SLES-10-SP1 Xen(i386): LVM was used to provide block storage for VMs. |
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 Broadcom® Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (5706c) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | File Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 142444 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 20120a49b8ac02c0b62608ca562bda2c | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic® SAS1064 PCI-X Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | File Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| File Date: 18-May-2007 | File Size: 36136 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 6dd8cd00c364614eb96f1da3e084f199 | |||||||||
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| ATI® ES1000 | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | File Name: radeon_dri.so | ||||||||
| File Date: 20-Sep-2006 | File Size: 2178256 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a4ebe7953fef8787e8a02230fd963802 | |||||||||
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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:
IBM
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
www.ibm.com