| Express5800/120Ba-4 |
| Distribution |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Ver3 Update2 (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 addition / Memory
addition / LAN addition / HDD addition / Ethernet 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
DeploymentManagerLite OK.(*1) 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 |
(*1)
Installation using DeploymentManagerLite ( DPM ).
Refer to manual of DPM and kickstart for details.- Download
- Download a archive ( filename: DPM_120Ba-4_RHES3U2.zip ) from [HERE] and extract it to get 'ks.cfg' and 'syslinux.cfg'.
- Setting up network servers
- Set up DHCP server for the Bladeserver to get IP address via network.
- Set up NFS server to export '/exports/CD' folder. And copy all included in Red Hat Linux installation CDs there.
*This location is specified in 'ks.cfg'.- Set up NFS server to export '/exports/KS' folder. And set 'ks.cfg' there.
*This location is specified in 'syslinux.cfg'.- Customise 'ks.cfg' according to your environment. At least, you must set up the following item
* For details, refer to Red Hat Linux documentation about kickstart.
- IP address of NFS server.
- Root passward.
- Partitions of HDDs. Set up with 'sda','sdb',... as scsi drives, 'hda',hdb',... as IDE drives.
- Packages you plan to install.
* 'ks.cfg' dose not approve anything except 'LF' as newline-code. Take care some meddlesome editor would automatically insert 'CR+LF'.- Setting up DPM server (* See the documentation about DPM for details.)
- Connect DPM server, NFS server, DHCP server and the Bladeserver to the same network segment.
- Install DPM in a Windows from the EXPRESSBUILDER CDROM.
- Make folder "C:¥Program Files¥NEC¥DeploymentManager¥PXE¥Images¥pxelinux¥RHES3" And Copy files 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd.img' from 'images/pxeboot' folder in Red Hat instration CD1 there.
* These location are specified in 'syslinux.cfg'.- Copy syslinux.cfg to C:¥Deploy¥AnsFile¥Linux¥.
* If you install optional LAN adapter, you may need to append kernel parameter 'ksdevise=eth1' to /etc/grub.conf according to the order of ether intarfaces.- Start DPM software and make scenario-file for installation.
- Registar the Bladeserver into the DPM server.
- Execution of the scenario
Execute the scenario on DPM and installation start automatically.
| 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 | 512MB Memory Module | N8402-010 | 1 | A | Capacity recognizable/operational |
| 2 |
1GB Memory Module | N8402-011 | 1 | A | Capacity recognizable/operational |
| 3 |
2GB Memory Module | N8402-012 | 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 |
| No. | Evaluation | Code | qty | Result | Evaluation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FT | LB | |||||
| 1 | Onboard(1000BASE-T) | standard equipment | 2 | A | - | Confirmed fault tolerance function.(*2) It is necessary to test performance of load balancing on your own system. |
(*2)
Confirmed refer to the following kernel source documentation
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
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