IFT-3102U2(G)

IFT-3102U2(G)
Hardware RAID
NEC Corporation

29 Jun 1999
53144

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
Infortrend IFT-3102U2(G) RAID controller is a SCSI-SCSI feature rich RAID controller. It provides RAID 0,(0+1),1,3,5,10,30 and 50, Local Spare/ Global spare Drive functionality with auto-rebuild upon drive swap. All the SCSI channels on IFT-3102U2(G) are Ultra2 wide LVD channel, each of them can be configured as a host channel or drive channel. It has a redundant controller with synchronized cache capability, one of the unique feature from Infortrend. It supports RAID expansion with mode 1 and 2, which gives the RAID system the utmost in upgradibility.

Tested Configuration:

Host Bus Adapter:	3 Adaptec AHA-2940U2W
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM DDRS-34560W IBM DCAS-32160W
CD/DVD:	Toshiba XM-3501TA
Test Kit:

Config Notes

SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8973 and kernel update 9105 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing.
Install: System installed using the internal USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.
Hard disk configuration: RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where one of the host network adapters was given to the FV SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. One of the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapters was used during this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
141509

Adapters and Drivers


3 Adaptec AHA-2940U2W

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

NEC Corporation
1-10 Nissin-cho, Fuchu-shi
Tokyo 183-8501
JAPAN
Voice: (+81) 42 333 1324
Fax: (+81) 42 333 1821

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