 | novascale™ BL265+
Network Server Hewlett-Packard Company | 31 Aug 2011
136176 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
The BULL novascale BL265+ has been designed specifically for use in virtualized environments. With 18 DIMM slots, the BL265+ allows you to fit more and larger virtual machines per blade. Durable solid-state drives and hardware RAID-0 and -1 provide outstanding reliability when virtualizing multiple workloads on a single blade. An embedded hypervisor enables easy deployment of industry-leading third-party virtualization solutions. Combine the BL265+ with Virtual Fabric for Bull Blade Chassis for a flexible, easy, fast and reliable I/O solution that helps reduce cost and complexity.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 3 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | P9E146VUS-1.07 |
| CPU: | 2 Intel Xeon® Processor X5670 2.93 GHz |
| RAM: | 16 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 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: | IBM
50GB 1.8 inch NHS SSD
, Serial ATA (SATA) 2 IBM 73.4GB 10K 3.5 SAS Hot-swap HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-21.1 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Matrox® MGA G200 VE | |||||||||
| Driver Type: Video Driver | Driver Name: mga_drv.so | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 12-Apr-2010 | Driver Size: 200804 | ||||||||
| Checksum: 3426fe7b896a5fa1de1c5892a962fbe2 | |||||||||
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| 2 Broadcom® Integrated 5709s NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: bnx2.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 11-May-2010 | Driver Size: 96068 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c96dbba1fb7751befe54cba4e4e3bcde | |||||||||
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| LSI Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: mptsas.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 11-May-2010 | Driver Size: 80240 | ||||||||
| Checksum: c1275643bb3f5070bd2f7cdb58750194 | |||||||||
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The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.
https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/
For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:
Hewlett-Packard Company
Industry Standard Server Division
20555 SH249
Houston , TX 77070
Website: http://www.hp.com