Oct. 19, 2010
Express5800/B120b-h
Distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (x86_64)
( KERNEL 2.6.18-194.el5 )
Meanings of letters
A ---Function without third party drivers
B ---Function with third party drivers
C ---Not function
D ---Not supported
blank---Not tested
OS Installation / Xen Virtualization /Basic operation / Hardware addition

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Code Model

N8400-099
N8400-100
N8400-103
Express5800/B120b-h
Intel® Xeon® Processor X5680 (3.33GHz)
Intel® Xeon® Processor X5650 (2.66GHz)
Intel® Xeon® Processor L5640 (2.26GHz)

OS Installation UP

-Hardware configuration

Configuration Drive Outline qty
1 SSD Additional SSD 1

-Evaluation

Checklist Result Comment
Conf1
OS installation A
(*1)
Boot from distribution's CD/DVD media.
Making partitions 14 Using the whole drive
Hard Drives A Copy and compare data files.
Availability of Degraded RAID - Remove one HDD from the running system.
Rebuild of Degraded RAID - Rebuild automatically
I/O access running 12h I/O access running
Reboot 10 The number of times.
(*1)NECESSARY
Disable EDAC modules. EDAC module will prevent hardware from collecting IPMI logs which is necessary for hardware support.
  1. Add following sentences to /etc/modprobe.conf.
    install *_edac /bin/true
    install edac_* /bin/true
  2. Restart the Operation System.
  3. Check that string "edac" is not shown in the result of lsmod.

Xen Virtualization UP

Checklist Result Comment
Creating Virtual Machines (full-virtualized) (*1) Number of created Virtual Machines.
Creating Virtual Machines (para-virtualized) 2 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 The number of times.
(*1)
Please note that the Full-virtualization is high load.

Basic operation UP

Checklist Result Comment
X Window System A 1024x768, thousands colors.
Mouse/keyboard A
(*1)
Test on X Window System.
Built-in LAN ports A
(*2,3)
ssh and ftp
Built-in LAN ports Teaming (bonding) A Use bonding driver. See the kernel document about bonding.
CPU information A cat /proc/cpuinfo
Memory information A cat /proc/meminfo
Maximum CPUs 2 Number of physical CPUs.
Maximum Memory 192
(*4)
Size of Main Memory. (GB)
Optical disk drive A Copy and compare data files.
Floppy drive A
Serial port A Configure to login.
(*1)
Scroll Wheel of PS/2 mouse dose not work on BladeServer assembly unit(SIGMABLADE-M)

(*2)
Get newest ixgbe driver from intel download center, and update with them. It enables wake-on-lan.

(*3)
You must change wake-on-lan setting.
  1. Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and add following lines
    /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g
    /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth1 wol g
  2. Restart the Operation System.
  3. "ethtool eth0" command may shows "Wake-on : g".
(*4)
On x86 system, bigsmp kernel is available in case memory amount is from 4GB to 16GB.
On x86 system, less than 16GB memory is supported.

Hardware Addition UP

Model/Device Result
Hard drive (HDD) 2.5inch SSD A
LAN Adapters (*1)
(*1)
See ( HERE ), Option Devices page.

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