Hp XW4100, XW6000 User Manual

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Tested Products List (TPL) for Linux

Supported

Description of Item: Part Number

ATTO Celerity FC-41ES 4G Fibre Channel, 1-Channel PCIe HBA CTFC-41ES-0R0

ATTO Celerity FC-42ES 4G Fibre Channel, 2-Channel PCIe HBA CTFC-42ES-0R0 ATTO Celerity FC-44ES 4G Fibre Channel, 4-Channel PCIe HBA CTFC-44ES-000

HP Infiniband 4X SDR PCI-E Single Port HCA 431038-B21 xw8400, xw9400 HP Infiniband 4X DDR PCI-E Dual Port HCA 409376-B21 xw8400, xw9400 HP Infiniband 4X DDR PCI-E Single Port HCA 431039-B21 xw8400, xw9400

Footnote 1: Footnote 2: Footnote 3:

Platforms:

xw4600, xw8400, xw9400, xw6600, xw8600, xw4600, xw8400, xw9400, xw6600, xw8600,

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xw xw6600, xw8600,

, xw

RHEL4 RHEL5

32bit 64bit 32bit 64bit

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Who to contact for Support:

(716) 691-1999 x242 http://www.attotech.com/techsupt.html (716) 691-1999 x24 http://www.attotech.com/techsupt.html (716) 691-1999 x24 http://www.attotech.com/techsupt.html (800) 474-6836 http://www.hp.com/support (800) 474-683 http://www.hp.com/support (800) 474-683 http://www.hp.com/support

Known Issues:

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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations

xw8600 Red Hat Linux Support

First time support begins with RHEL4.5 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features

Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported

RH EL WS 4.6 or later

(x86 & EM64T)

hp workstation base system

Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc.

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Localization Kit (See footnote 1) HP localization kit

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Software

Remote Graphics Software

All Supported Processors

All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •• Hyperthreading Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3)

No Gra

hics Card

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290

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NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX370 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX570 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 •• NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 •• SLI Graphics Connector ATI v5600 PCI-E

System RAM

Minimum (MB) Maximum

512 512

64GB 64GB

Hard Disks

All Supported SAS disk drives 6 6 All Supported SATA disk drives 6 6 All Supported USB Drive Keys ••

Network Cards (no modem support)

Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI

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Onboard Components

Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 Onboard Audio Onboard SATA/SAS Raid

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Add Ons

IEEE 1394 PCI Card Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi LSI 8888 ELP 55 Hardware Raid

Removable CD/DVD Media

HP 48x CD-ROM Drive •• HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive •• HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo •• HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW 44

Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)

HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 77 HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 77 HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB 77 HP Standard Keyboard, USB 77 Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card HP Printers 88 All supported monitors

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RH EL DT 5.1 or later

(x86 & x86_64)

footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw8600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";

footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported. footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8888 ELP (RAID 0,1, 10 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1,). SATA Raid is not supported. footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration. footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

This Month's Change Log: Will be offering Red Hat WS 4 U5 64bit preload on xw4400, xw4600, xw6400, xw8400, xw9400. Please refer to the Release Notes Chapter in http://www.hp.com/support/linux_user_manual.

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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations

xw6600 Red Hat Linux Support

First time support begins with RHEL4.5 (x86 & x86_64) and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features

Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported

RH EL WS 4.6 or later

(x86 & EM64T)

hp workstation base system

Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. Localization Kit (See footnote 1)

HP localization kit

Software

Remote Graphics Software

All Supported Processors

All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) Hyperthreading Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 3) No Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 NVIDIA Quadro FX370 NVIDIA Quadro FX570 NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 ATI RV560 PCI-E ATI v5600 PCI-E

System RAM

Minimum (MB

512 512

Maximum 32GB 32GB

Hard Disks

All Supported SAS disk drives 6 6 All Supported SATA disk drives 6 6 All Supported USB Drive Keys

Network Cards (no modem support)

Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI

Onboard Components

Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 Onboard Audio Onboard SATA Raid

Add Ons

LSI 3041E SAS Card IEEE 1394 PCI Card SATA Controllers Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Hardware Raid 55

Removable CD/DVD Media

HP 48x CD-ROM Drive HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo HP 16x dual-layer DVD+RW

Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)

HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB HP Standard Keyboard, USB Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card HP Printers All supported monitors

RH EL DT 5.1 or later

(x86 & x86_64)

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footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-Engli footnote 2 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit. footnote 3 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Re Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw6600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not footnote 5 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported. footnote 6 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SAS, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration. footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations

First time support begins with RHEL4 Update 5 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features

Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported

hp workstation base system

Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. Localization Kit (See footnote 1) HP localization kit

Software

Remote Graphics Software

All Supported Processors

All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •• Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2) No Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 NVIDIA Quadro NVS440 NVIDIA Quadro FX370 NVIDIA Quadro FX570 NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 ATI v5600 PCI-E

System RAM

Minimum Maximum 8GB 8GB

Hard Disks

All Supported SAS disk drives 55 All Supported SATA disk drives 5,7 5,7 All Supported USB Drive Keys ••

Network Cards (no modem support)

Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express Intel Pro 1000 PT Gigibit PCI

Onboard Components

Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 Onboard Audio Onboard SATA Raid

Add Ons

LSI 3041E SAS Card IEEE 1394 PCI Card All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers SATA Controllers Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Hardware Raid 66

Removable CD/DVD Media

HP 48x CD-ROM Drive HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo HP 16x dual-la

Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)

HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB HP Standard Keyboard, USB Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card HP Printers All supported monitors

footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English) footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4600 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'.

footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported. footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration. footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 3041E (RAID 0,1 SAS Only). SATA Raid is not supported.

footnote 7 - The xw4400 can support up to 4 SATA drives, in order to support the 3rd and 4th SATA drive the customer will need the Optical Bay Conversion Kit for each drive. footnote 8 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported footnote 9 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

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xw4600 Red Hat Linux Support

RH EL WS 4 U5 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5 or later (x86 & x86_64)

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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations

First time support begins with RHEL4.6 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5.1 (x86 & x86_64)

Product Items/Features

Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported

hp workstation base system

Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. Localization Kit (See footnote 1) HP localization kit

Software

Remote Graphics Software

All Supported Processors

All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •• Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2) ATI x1250 Onboard Graphics •• No Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 NVIDIA Quadro FX370 NVIDIA Quadro FX570 NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 ATI v5600 PCI-E

System RAM

Minimum Maximum 4GB 4GB

Hard Disks

All Supported SATA disk drives 55 All Supported USB Drive Keys ••

Network Cards (no modem support)

Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express

Onboard Components

Onboard LAN - Broadcom 5755 10/100/1000 Onboard Audio Onboard SATA Raid

Add Ons

IEEE 1394 PCI Card Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

Removable CD/DVD Media

HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive HP 16x dual-la

Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)

HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB HP Standard Keyboard, USB Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card HP Printers All supported monitors

footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/

sia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-Engli

Mala footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers, "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6", and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw4550 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software";

footnote 3 - 290 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'. footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported.

footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration. footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is not supported on the xw4550.

footnote 7 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported footnote 8 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net

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xw4550 Red Hat Linux Support

RH EL WS 4.6 or later (x86 & EM64T) RH EL DT 5.1 or later (x86 & x86_64)

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Hardware Support Matrix for Current HP Linux Workstations

Product Items/Features

First time support begins with RHEL 3 Update 8 (x86_64), RHEL4 Update 4 (x86 & x86_64), and RHEL5 (x86 & x86_64)

Blank box or unlisted means the component is NOT supported

hp workstation base system

Base system includes: Chassis, System Board, USB, Power Supply, etc. Localization Kit (See footnote 1) HP localization kit

Software

Remote Graphics Software ••••

All Supported Processors

All Supported Processors (1 & 2 CPU configs) •••• Hyperthreading Dual-core Opeteron (1.8 GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, 2.6Ghz, and 2.8GHz) •••• Quad-core Opeteron (2.1GHz, 2.2GHz, 2.3GHz) 12 12 Graphics Card (Video Card) (See footnote 2) No Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 NVIDIA Quadro FX560 NVIDIA Quadro FX1500 NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 NVIDIA Quadro FX4500 NVIDIA Quadro FX4600 NVIDIA Quadro FX5500 NVIDIA Quadro FX5600 G-Card (to be used with the FX4500) SLI Graphics Connector ATI v3300 PCI-E ATI v3350 PCI-E ATI v7200 PCI-E

System RAM

Minimum Maximu

Hard Disks

All Supported SAS disk drives 5 5 5 5 All Supported SATA disk drives 5 5 5 5 All Supported USB Drive Keys ••••

Network Cards (no modem support)

Broadcom 5751 PCI-Express Intel Pro 1000 GT Gigibit PCI

Onboard Components

Onboard LAN eth0 - Nvidia Onboard LAN eth1 - Nvidia Onboard Audio Onboard SATA/SAS Raid

Add Ons

IEEE 1394 PCI Card All non-Raid U320 SCSI Controllers SATA Controllers Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS LSI 8344 66 Hardware Raid 66

Removable CD/DVD Media

HP 48x CD-ROM Drive HP 16x DVD-ROM Drive HP 48x DVD/CDRW Combo HP 16x dual-la

Input/Output Devices (no spaceball support)

HP 3-Button Mouse, PS/2 HP Scroll Mouse, PS/2 HP Optical Scroll Mouse, USB HP Standard Keyboard, USB Modular keyboard/ TPM module/ Smart card HP Printers All supported monitors

footnote 1 - Localization supported: (ABA US English, ABC French Canadian, ABD Germany, ABE Spain, ABF France, ABG Australia, ABU UK English, ABJ Japan, AB2 China(PRC), AB4 Singapore/ Malaysia, ABZ Italy, AB5 Hong Kong, ACF Japan-English, ACJ India-English, AB0 Taiwan, AK6 Europe A4, AC0 Belgium, ABS Sweden, ABB Int'l English) footnote 2 - Get the latest drivers and "HP Installer Kit for Linux - HP Driver CD for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8" ISO images from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400 (substitute correct platform name); Select "download drivers and software"; Select OS; Select file to download. See also http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Install Guide for Red Hat Linux on HP Linux Workstations'

footnote 3 - 285 NVS PCI card may be used alone or with another card. See instructions at http://hp.com/support/linux_user_manual -> 'Multi-Monitor Configurations on HP Linux Workstations'. footnote 4 - Linux growisofs supports DVD+RW on Red Hat EL WS 3 or later. For drives that have the Lightscribe funtionality, the labeling functionality is not supported. footnote 5 - Mixed hard drives are not offered on the preload. Use SATA or SCSI, not both. We do offer mixed drives on the HPIKL (FreeDos) configuration. footnote 6 - Hardware RAID is supported using the LSI 8344 ELP (RAID 0,1, 10 SAS Only) and Onboard SAS Raid (RAID 0,1). SATA Raid is not supported. footnote 7 - Not orderable integrated into systems. Order AMO (After Market Only) kit. footnote 8 - Keyboard/Mouse interface must be either PS2 or USB; mixing is not supported footnote 9 - For RHEL3 U8, download the ALSA Sound Support softpaq from http://www.hp.com/support/xw9400. For RHEL4, use the built in ALSA Sound Support. footnote 10 - The accelerated graphics works very well. Vesa driver has issues with this card. footnote 11 - For more info about Linux driver support for HP Printers please visit http://www.hplip.net footnote 12 - Until further notice. Nvidia Drivers do not work on RHEL4.6 and 5.1 32bit. Nvidia Drivers will work on RHEL4.6 and 5.1 64bit.

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xw9400 Red Hat Linux Support

RH EL WS 3 U8 or later

(x86)

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1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB

64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB

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8888 8888 8888 8888

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RH EL WS 3 U8 or later

(EM64T)

RH EL WS 4 U5 or later

(x86 & EM64T)

RH EL DT 5 or later (x86

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