Aug 24, 2007
Express5800/120Bb-m6
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86/x86_64)
( KERNEL 2.6.18-8.el5 )
Meanings of letters
A ---Function without third party drivers
B ---Function with third party drivers
C ---Not function
D ---Not Supported
Model / OS Installation / Xen Virtualization / General Action / Hardware addition / LAN Adapters

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Code Model

N8400-046
N8400-048
N8400-049
Express5800/120Bb-m6
DualCore XeonProcessor 5130(2.0GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor X5355(2.66GHz)
QuadCore XeonProcessor E5345(2.33GHz)
* You must update BMC firmware if the version is less than 00.21.

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 Onboard RAID Additional HDD (RAID1) 2
Additional HDD (RAID5) 3
Additional HDD (HotSpare) 1
* You must choose the same type of HDDs for a RAID drive.

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1
OS installation A Boot from CD-ROM.
Making partitions 14 Using till the last cylinder of drives.
Hard Drives A Copy and compare data files.
Availability of Degraded RAID
( Hotplug.)
A Remove one HDD from the running system.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID
( Hotplug.)
A Rebuilding automatically.
I/O access running 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10 The number of times.

Xen Virtualization UP

Checklist Result Comment
Creating Virtual Machines (full-virtualized) -
(*1)
the number of created Virtual Machines.
Creating Virtual Machines (para-virtualized) 2 the number of created Virtual Machines.
Drives on Virtual Machines A Copy and compare data files.
Networking on Virtual Machines A ssh,ftp
I/O access running(full-virtualization) -
(*1)
I/O access running
I/O access running(para-virtualization) 12h I/O access running
Reboot (dom0) 10 The number of times.
Reboot (domU) 10
(*2)
The number of times.
(*1)
Full-virtualization is not recommended because occasional system freezing has been observed.

(*2)
Booting of Guest domain is sometimes canceled for unknown reasons.

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Checklist Result Comment
X Window System A 1024x768, thousands colors.
Mouse/keyboard A
(*1)
Test on X Window System.
Built-in LAN ports B
(*2)
ssh, ftp
Built-in LAN ports Teaming (bonding) A Use bonding driver. See the kernel document for information about bonding.
CPU information A cat /proc/cpuinfo
Memory information A cat /proc/meminfo
Maximum CPUs 2 The capable number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 48
(*3)
The capable size of Main Memory. (GB)
DVD-ROM Drive A Copy and compare data files.
Floppy Drive A
Serial port A
(*4)
Configure to login.
(*1)
  • To fix Keyboard problem, BMC firmware must be updated.
  • BladeServer Assembly Unit(SIGMABLADE-M) with PS/2 mouse : Scroll Wheel dose not work.
(*2)
Is is recommended to update ethernet driver to fix some problems. See Intel® website and get newest e1000 driver.

(*3)
On RHEL5 x86 system, main memory amount is supported up to 16GB. And use PAE kernel in case memory amount is from 4GB to 16GB. On RHEL5 x86_64 system, there is no memory size limitation.

(*4)
Serial port is ttyS1.

Hardware Addition UP

Code Model/Device Result Comment
N8401-018 Additional CPU XD2/2G A cat /proc/cpuinfo
N8401-020 Additional CPU XD2/2.66G A
N8401-021 Additional CPU XQ/2.33G A
N8402-028 1GB Additional Memory board A cat /proc/meminfo
N8402-029 2GB Additional Memory board A
N8402-030 4GB Additional Memory board A
N8402-031 8GB Additional Memory board A
N8450-014 Additional 36.3GB HDD A Copy and compare data files.
N8450-015 Additional 73.2GB HDD A
N8450-017 Additional 146.5GB HDD A
N8460-002 External FDD (USB) A Connected after OS boot, Copy and compare data files.
N8460-009 External DVD-ROM (USB) A Connected after OS boot, Copy and compare data files.
N8870-001 USB Keyboard A Connected after OS boot.
N8870-010A USB Mouse A Connected after OS boot.

LAN Adapters UP
See ( HERE ), Option Devices page.

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