Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Tested Hardware and Operating System List Revision 2.
Revision History Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Revision History Date Revision Number Modifications February 2003 0.5 Initial Draft March 2003 0.9 Updated with latest vendor roadmaps May 2003 0.91 Incorporation of TME comments July 2003 0.92 Updated SCSI drive list Nov 2003 0.93 Revised USB Key Fob device list Dec 2003 0.95 Updated to reflect latest device lists and OS changes April 2004 0.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Test Overview.......................................................................................................... 4 1.1.1 Compatibility Testing ............................................................................................... 4 1.1.
Introduction 1. Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Introduction The Tested Hardware and Operating System List (THOL) is intended to provide users of the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 Server and the Intel® Server Chassis SBCE server system with a guide to the different operating systems, expansion cards, and peripherals tested on this platform.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE 1.1.2 Introduction Stress Testing Stress testing is performed only on the most current release of a supported operating system at the time of a given validation run. The stress test process consists of three areas: Base platform, expanded configuration, and Endurance. Base Platform: Each base platform will successfully install a given operating system, successfully run a disk stress test, and successfully run a network stress test.
Base System Configurations 2. Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 Server Base System Configurations The following table lists the base configurations tested. Base configurations will change as new revisions of the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 Blade Server are released and/or new system BIOS or firmware are cut onto the board in the factory.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Supported Operating Systems 3. Supported Operating Systems The following table provides a list of supported operating systems for the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE. Each of the listed operating systems was tested for compatibility with a base Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44/ Intel® Server Chassis SBCE configuration.
Supported Operating Systems Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE 3.2 Operating System Certifications Listed below are the operating systems that Intel will certify with the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 blade server. However, the customer is responsible for their own certification from the individual operating system vendors. In many cases, the customer may leverage their operating system certifications from Intel’s testing.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCEOn-Board Expansion Board 4. Components and On-Board Components and Expansion Board The following is a list of the on-board components included on the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 Blade Server as well as the expansion boards that Intel supports in the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44/ Intel® Server Chassis SBCE server system.
2 1 2 2 2 1GbE 2 1 2 2 2 1GbE 2 1 2 2 2 Interface Comments SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9 Red Hat Linux* RHEL3 Model Number Microsoft Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, SP4 Model Name Red Hat Linux* AS2.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE 5. Peripherals Peripherals Peripheral compatibility and stress testing will only be performed with the latest version of an operating system at the time the validation testing occurred. The following table shows the operating system and base configurations used to validate each device. Note that none of these items will be fully qualified. As such, Intel cannot guarantee their functionality.
Microsoft Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, SP2 Red Hat Linux* RHEL3 EMC CX-400 2Gb FC Cert by EMC 1 1 TBD TBD Eurologic* FC-2502 2Gb FC RAID Enclosure 1 1 TBD TBD 2 2 2 2 Manufa cturer Model Name Model Number Inter face Comments SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9 Red Hat Linux* AS2.
Red Hat Linux* AS2.
Microsoft Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, SP2 Red Hat Linux* RHEL3 Brocade Silkworm 3200 n/a n/a n/a n/a Brocade Silkworm 3800 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Manufa cturer Model Number Model Name Inter face Comments SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9 Red Hat Linux* AS2.
TEAC FD-05UB USB, SL, 1.44MB Floppy TEAC FD-05UW 297 USB, SL, 1.44MB Floppy Comments 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 9 Inter face Red Hat Linux* RHEL3 Model Number Microsoft Windows* 2000 Advanced Server, SP2 Model Name Red Hat Linux* AS2.1 Manufa cturer Peripherals Microsoft Windows* 2003 Enterprise Edition Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE CDROM TEAC CD-224E IDE, slimline, 24X LG CRN-8245B IDE, slimline, 24X Revision 2.
Hard Disk Drives 6. Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Hard Disk Drives The hard drives listed in the following table have been tested with the Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44/SBCE blade server system by Intel in its validation labs and/or by individual drive vendors. The following operating system identifiers are used in the table to specify which OS each drive was tested under.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Manufacturer Product Family Model Number Interface RPM Hard Disk Drives Drive size (GB) Seagate Cheetah ST3300007LC U320 10K 300GB Seagate Cheetah ST3146854LC U320 15K 146GB Revision 2.
Installation Guidelines 7. Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Installation Guidelines Known issues encountered with OS installation will be documented here as they are discovered. 7.1 Operating System Installation Issue Guideline 1: How to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS Update 3 on a Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 blade using Intel® Server SCSI Expansion SBSCSI (BSE) and associated SCSI disk. 1. At the Linux boot prompt type 2. linux noprobe 3.
Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE Installation Guidelines Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 setup (hd0) You should see the following messages: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 22 sectors are embedded.
Installation Guidelines Intel® Server Compute Blade SBX44 / Intel® Server Chassis SBCE timezone --utc America/New_York $6Vjyx0shZp1c2LKVVDo830 reboot --iscrypted $1$áIXPsïà à install nfs --server 192.168.1.2 --dir /data/rh/i386/RedHat/AS2.1/q3 %packages @Everything Note: - The IP address and NFS path where RPMS are located should reflect the actual IP address and NFS path. - Modify the kickstart file as needed.
