as of Jan 17th, 2005
Express5800/120Ba-4
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Ver3 Update2 EM64T
(KERNEL 2.4.21-15.ELsmp)

The following letters given to evaluation results stand for:
'A'---operational on the distributed OS
'B'---operational with update driver applied to the distributed OS
'C'---not operational
'D'---not supported
Installation in standard composition / CPU additionMemory addition
/ LAN additionHDD additionEthernet Bonding

Installation in standard composition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 Express5800/120Ba-4
Xeon 3.20DGHz/memory-less)
N8400-021 1 A Installation using CD-ROM on Blade Server Assemble Unit
Keyboard and Mouse recognizable/operational
Built-in LAN recognizable/operational
CPU Hyper-Threading/SMP operational
2 73.2GB HDD(SCSI) N8450-007 1
3 1GB Memory Module N8402-011 1
4 Keyboard(USB) N8870-001 1
5 Mouse (USB/two buttons) N8870-010 1
6
Blade Server Assemble Unit N8405-013 1

CPU addition Top

No. Model/Device Code qty Result Evaluation
1 CPU Kit N8401-010 1 A Hyper-Threading, smp operational

Memory Addition Top

No. Model/Devic Code qty Result Evaluation
1
1GB Memory Module N8402-011 1 A Capacity recognizable/operational
2
4GB Memory Module N8402-013 1 A Capacity recognizable/operational

LAN addition Top

No. Model/Devic Code qty Result Evaluation
1 1000BASE-T N8403-013 1 A Confirmed by telnet and ftp.

HDD addition Top

No. Model/Devic Code qty Result Evaluation
1 73.2GB HDD N8450-007 1
A Connected with built-in SCSI controller.
Confirmed by writing and reading data.
2 146.5GB HDD N8450-008 1
A Connected with built-in SCSI controller.
Confirmed by writing and reading data.

Ethernet Bonding Top
  Confirmed ethernet bonding function using OS standard Bonding driver

No. Evaluation Code qty Result Evaluation
FT LB
1 Onboard(1000BASE-T) standard equipment 2 A - Confirmed fault tolerance function.(*1)
It is necessary to test performance of load balancing on your own system.

(*1)
Confirmed refer to the following kernel source documentation
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
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