As of Sep 25, 2006
Express5800/120Li
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3 Update8 EM64T
( KERNEL 2.4.21-47EL )
Meanings of letters
A ---Function without external drivers
B ---Function with external drivers
C ---Not function
D ---Not Supported
OS Installation / HDDs addition / CPUs addition / Memories addition /
LAN boards addition / Backup Devices /

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Code Model/Device qty
Config1
(SAS)
N8100-1240 Express5800/120Li
( diskless Model/DualCore Intel(R)Xeon(R)5160(3G/1333/4M)/memory 2GB)
1
N8150-199 Additional 36.3GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm) 1
Config2
(SAS-DAC)
N8100-1239 Express5800/120Li
( diskless Model/DualCore Intel(R)Xeon(R)5110(1.60G/1066/4M)/memory 2GB)
1
N8103-91 Disk Array Controller(for internal SAS HDDs)(FW:1.02.00-0086) 1
N8103-94 Additional Battery(SAS) 1
N8154-11 Additional HDD Cage 1
N8150-199 Additional 36.3GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm)(SAS-DAC,RAID5) 3
N8150-200 Additional 73.2GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm)(SAS-DAC,RAID0) 2
N8150-201 Additional 146.5GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm)(SAS-DAC,RAID1) 2

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Config1 Config2
OS installation A A Boot from Update CD-ROM.
X-Window A A (*1)
PS/2 Mouse/keyboard A A (*2)
Built-in LAN port A A Telnet, FTP.
Built-in LAN ports Teaming (Bonding) A A Telnet, FTP.(*3)
CPU information A A cat /proc/cpuinfo
Memory information A A cat /proc/meminfo
Making partitions 14 14 Using last cylinder of drives.
Hard Drives A A Copy and compare data files.
CD-ROM Drive A A
Floppy Drive A A
Availability of Degraded RAID drive
(Hotplug).
- A
(*4)
Remove one HDD from the running system.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID drive
(Hotplug).
- A
(*4)
Rebuilt of degraded RAID drive automatically.
I/O access running 12h 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10 10 The number of times.
(*1)
You must suppose Video RAM size as 2MB, regardless of mis-probing.

(*2)
Don't change the mouse configuration that should be set as a USB-mouse.

(*3)
Use Bonding driver.
See the kernel document about bonding.You must test performance on each environment.

(*4)
You can check RAID statuses by HDD LEDs.

HDDs Addition UP
Code Model/Device Result Comment
N8150-199 Additional 36.3GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm) A
Copy and compare data files.
N8150-200 Additional 73.2GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm)
N8150-201 Additional 146.5GB HDD(SAS,15000rpm)

CPUs Addition UP
Code Model/Device qty Result Comment
N8101-346 Additional CPU
(XD2/1.60G(4))
1 A cat /proc/cpuinfo
N8101-347 Additional CPU
(XD2/3G(4))
1 A

Memories Addition UP
Code Model/Device qty Result Comment
N8102-246 Additional Memory board(DDR2-533, FB-DIMM, 512MB x2) 5 A cat /proc/meminfo
N8102-247 Additional Memory board(DDR2-533, FB-DIMM, 1GB x2) 5 A cat /proc/meminfo
N8102-248 Additional Memory board(DDR2-533, FB-DIMM, 2GB x2) 6 A cat /proc/meminfo
N8102-249 Additional Memory board(DDR2-533, FB-DIMM, 4GB x2) 6 A cat /proc/meminfo
* Use hugemem kernel in case over 16GB memory.

LAN Boards Addition UP
See ( HERE ), additional LAN board page.

Backup Devices UP
See ( HERE ), Backup Devices page.

-Hardware configuration

Connection Code Model/Device Driver Version
Conn1 N8103-95 Additional SCSI Controller (PCI,U160) aic7xxx 6.2.36
Conn2 N8103-75 Additional SCSI Controller (PCI-X,U320) aic79xx 1.3.10-RH1

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conn1 Conn2
Backup, Restore A A tar/mt/mtx
Reboot with Backup Devices 10 10 The number of times.

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