Intel MFSYS35 User Manual

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

Tested Hardware and Operating System List

Enterprise Platforms and Services Division

Revision 1.9

March, 2009

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

Revision History

Revision

Date

November, 2007 1.0 Initial Release January, 2008 1.1 Added support for Windows 2003 Server, clarified Virtualization Software

January 22 , 2008 1.2 Added Fujitsu 146GB 2.5” HDD January 25 , 2008 1.3 Corrected 146BG FJ HDD – 10K instead of 15K drive February 1, 008 1.4 Added SLES 10 64-bit Stress Testing and Novell Certification Status for

August, 2008 1.5

December, 2008 1.6 January 9, 2009 1.7 January 16,2009 1.8

March 2009 1.9

Number Modifications

testing/certification details

both 32 & 64-bit versions Added VMware ESX Server 3.0.2 U1 GA Certification and Windows 2008

Server support. Updated USB Device list. Updated OS support. Added initial MFSYS35 HDD information. Corrected Hard Drive FW revisions in Table 5.2 Tested Hard Drives Corrected Xyratec external array information, added note for 3.5” drives-

mixing of SAS and SATA not supported. Updated Table 4.6 External Tape Drives and Table 5.2 Tested HDDs

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

Disclaimers

THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION, OR SAMPLE.

Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel estoppel or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights is granted by this document. Except as provided in Intel's Terms and Conditions of Sale for such products, Intel assumes no liability whatsoever, and Intel disclaims any express or implied warranty, relating to sale and/or use of Intel products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, or infringement of any patent, copyright or other intellectual property right. Intel products are not intended for use in medical, life saving, or life sustaining applications.

Intel retains the right to make changes to its test specifications at any time, without notice.

The hardware vendor remains solely responsible for the design, sale and functionality of its product, including any liability arising from product infringement or product warranty.

Intel, the Intel logo, and EtherExpress are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

*Other names or brands may be claimed as the property of others.

products. No license, express or implied, by

Revision 1.9

iii

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................................6

1.1 Test Overview..........................................................................................................6

1.1.1 Basic Installation Testing.........................................................................................6

1.1.2 I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing .........................7

1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria .............................................................................................8

2. MFS5000SI / MFSYS25 / MFSYS35 Base System Configurations....................................9

3. Supported Operating Systems & Software......................................................................10

3.1 Operating System Certifications............................................................................12

3.2 Operating System Storage Component Support ...................................................13

4. I/O Expansion Cards & Peripherals..................................................................................14

4.1 Ethernet Expansion Card.......................................................................................15

4.2 Monitors.................................................................................................................15

4.3 USB Devices..........................................................................................................15

4.4 Ethernet Switch Modules.......................................................................................17

4.5 Storage Controller Modules...................................................................................17

4.6 External Tape Drives.............................................................................................17

4.7 External Storage....................................................................................................17

5. Hard Disk Drives.................................................................................................................18

6. Installation Guidelines.......................................................................................................20

6.1 Slipstreamed install for Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (32 & 64 bit)................20

6.2 Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (32 & 64 bit) Remote Installation Method ........21

6.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 (32 & 64 bit) Remote Installation Method ...............25

6.4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32 & 64 bit) Remote Installation Method........31

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

List of Tables

Table 2.1 Base System Configurations Tested.............................................................................9

Table 3.1 Operating Systems Tested .........................................................................................10

Table 3.2 Operating System Certifications .................................................................................12

Table 3.3 Operating System Storage Component Support ........................................................13

Table 4.1 Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI Supported Items...............................................15

Table 4.2 Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25 Supported Peripherals..............................17

Table 5.1 Tested Operating System Identifier Numbers.............................................................18

Table 5.2 Tested Hard Drives.....................................................................................................19

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

1. Introduction

This document is intended to provide users of the Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25/MFSYS35 and Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI with a guide to the different operating systems, expansion cards, and peripherals Intel plans to test on this platform.

This document will continue to be updated as new expansion cards, peripherals, and operating systems are tested or until the Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25/MFSYS35 and Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI are no longer in production. Each new release of the document will present updated information as well as continue to provide the information from previous releases.

Intel will only provide support for those expansion cards and peripherals under the specified system configuration (System BIOS and Firmware revisions) and operating systems versions with which they were tested.

1.1 Test Overview

Testing performed on the Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25/MFSYS35 and Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI is classified under two separate categories: Basic Installation Testing, and Expansion Card/ Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing.

1.1.1 Basic Installation Testing

Basic installation testing is performed with each supported operating system. Basic installation testing validates that the server board can install the operating system and that the base hardware feature set is functional. A small set of peripherals is used for installation purposes only. No expansion cards are tested. Testing includes network connectivity and running of proprietary and industry standard test suites.

The latest version of an operating system signifies the latest supported version



1.1.1.1 Support Commitment for Basic Installation Testing

Intel commits to provide the following level of customer support for operating systems that receive only basic installation testing:

• Intel will provide and test operating system drivers for each of the server board’s

• Intel will support customer issues that involve installation and/or functionality of

at the time of the actual test run. Each new release of this document may have a newly supported release of a given operating system. Previous releases of a supported operating system may not be tested beyond the basic installation test process.

integrated controllers, provided that the controller vendor has a driver available upon request. Vendors will not be required by Intel to develop drivers for operating systems that they do not already support. This may limit the functionality of certain server board integrated controllers.

operating system with the server board’s integrated controllers only if a driver has been made available.

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

• Intel will NOT provide support for issues related to use of any 3

party expansion cards or peripherals installed in the server system when an operating system that received basic installation testing only is in use.

• Support is defined as assistance in root causing issues, and determining a customer

acceptable resolution to the issue associated with the operating system. The resolution may include, but is not limited to on-board controller driver changes, engaging the vendor for resolution, BIOS changes, firmware changes, or determining a customer acceptable workaround for the issue.

1.1.2 I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing

I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress testing is performed only on the most current release of a supported operating system at the time of a given validation run. The I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress testing process consists of three areas: Base Platform, I/O Expansion Card Compatibility, and Stress.

Base Platform: Each base platform will successfully install a given operating system, successfully run a disk stress test, and successfully run a network stress test.

I/O Expansion Card Compatibility: I/O Expansion Card compatibility validation (CV) testing uses test suites to gain an accurate view of how the server performs with the available expansion card under the primary supported operating systems. These tests are designed to show hardware compatibility between the cards and the server platform and include functional testing only. No heavy stressing of the systems or the cards is performed for CV testing.

Stress Testing: This test sequence uses configurations that include expansion cards in all available slots, for a minimum 72-hour test run without injecting errors. Each configuration passes an installation test, a Network/Disk Stress test, and tape backup test. Any fatal errors that occur will require a complete test restart.

1.1.2.1 Support Commitment for I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing

Intel commits to provide the following level of customer support for operating systems that receive I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress testing:

• Intel will provide support for customer issues with these operating systems involving

installation and/or functionality of the server board with or without the I/O Expansion Card and peripherals listed in this document as having been tested under the particular operating system.

• Support is defined as assistance in root causing issues, and determining a customer

• Intel will provide and test operating system drivers for each onboard video, network, and

storage controller.

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

• Intel will enable vendors to provide driver support for I/O Expansion Cards using these

operating systems.

• Intel will go through some of the steps to achieve certification to ensure its customers do

not run across any problems, but the actual certification is the responsibility of the individual customer.

For operating systems, adapter cards, and peripherals not listed in this



document, there is no support commitment. Intel will consider support requests on a case-by-case basis.

1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria

For each operating system, I/O Expansion card, and peripheral configuration, a test passes if specific criteria are met. Specific configurations may have had particular characteristics that were addressed on a case-by-case basis. In general, a configuration passes testing if the following conditions are met:

 The operating system installed without error.

- Manufacturer’s installation instructions or Intel’s best-known methods (BKMs) were used for the operating system installation.

- In some cases rKVM BKMs used involve workarounds and were required during the operating system installation.

- The server system behaved as expected during and after the operating system installation.

- Application software installed and executed normally.

 Hardware compatibility tests ran to completion without error.  Test software suites executed successfully

- Test and data files were created in the correct directories without error.

- Files copied from client to server and back compare to the original with zero errors

reported.

- Clients remain connected to the server system.

- Industry standard test suites run to completion with zero errors reported.

All Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI testing was performed using the Intel® Server Modular System MFSYS25 or the Intel® Server Modular System MFSYS35.

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI

2. MFS5000SI / MFSYS25 / MFSYS35 Base System Configurations

The following table lists the base system configurations tested. Base system configurations will change as new revisions of the Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI or the Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25/MFSYS35 are released and/or new system software stacks are cut onto the boards in the factory. Each base system configuration is assigned an identifier number that is referenced in the tables throughout this document. New base system configurations are added with each new release of this document.

Intel will only provide support for I/O expansion cards and peripherals under the



The following table lists the base system configuration tested.

Table 2.1 Base System Configurations Tested

specified base system configuration and operating systems versions with which they were tested.

Intel®

Config

Id #

1 MFSYS25

2 MFSYS25

3 MFSYS25

4 MFSYS35

5 MFSYS25

6 MFSYS35

Modular

Server

System

System PBA/TA Number

D91400003

D91400006I

D91403004

D91400006I

D91403004

Intel®

Compute

Module

MFS5000SI D70726-402 P2.0.5 8633 32 1.25.1 1.0.0.25 2.91.140.11

MFS5000SI D70726-402 P2.2.3 11328 43 1.30.3 1.0.0.25 2.91.140.45

MFS5000SI D70726-402 P2.6 14717 43 1.34.9 1.0.0.27 3.00.0140.77

MFS5000SI D70726-402 P2.7 16239 48 1.35.1 1.0.0.27 3.02.0140.15

Compute

Module PBA/TA

Number

Unified

Firmware

Update

Rev

GUI Rev

Note: All base system configurations tested used the Intel® Compute Module MFS500SI

BIOS

Rev

BMC

FW Rev

Switch

Rev SCM Rev

Revision 1.9

Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS25, Intel® Modular Server System MFSYS35, Intel® Compute

Module MFS5000SI

3. Supported Operating Systems & Software

The following table provides a list of the operating systems and software applications that Intel plans to test with the Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI. Each of the listed operating systems was tested for compatibility with the base system configuration listed in Section 2 of this document. Operating systems are supported only with the specified base system configuration(s) with which they were tested.

The following table also indicates whether each operating system received Basic Installation Testing, or Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing. For information on the support commitments for Basic Installation Testing vs. Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing, please reference Section 1 of this document.

Any variations to the standard operating system installation processes are documented in the Installation Guidelines section of this document. If no installation guidelines are noted in the following table, then the operating system installed as expected using manufacturer’s installation instructions or Intel’s best-known methods.



Operating systems supported by Intel® System Management Software may be different than the operating systems supported by the Intel® Compute Module MFS5000SI. Please reference the Readme and User Guide documents that are included as part of the Intel System Management Software distribution fo operating systems that are supported by that release.

Table 3.1 Operating Systems Tested

Operating System Type of Testing Notes

Intel’s testing was completed with Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows* 2003 Enterprise (32-bit), R2 SP2

Microsoft Windows* 2003 Enterprise (64-bit), R2 SP2

Configuration 1 - Compatibility & Stress

Configuration 1 -Compatibility & Stress

Enterprise R2 SP2, 32-bit. Although not specifically tested on this product, the MFS5000SI compute module also supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, 32-bit.

Intel’s testing was completed with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2, 64-bit. Although not specifically tested on this product, the MFS5000SI compute module also supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, 64-bit.

Microsoft Windows* 2008 Enterprise (32-bit)

Microsoft Windows* 2008 Enterprise (64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.0 U1 (64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.0 U1(32-bit)

Revision 1.9

Configuration 1 -Compatibility & Stress

Configuration 1 Basic Installation

+ 22 hidden pages

Intel MFSYS35 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

1.1 Test Overview

1.1.1 Basic Installation Testing

1.1.1.1 Support Commitment for Basic Installation Testing

1.1.2 I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing

1.1.2.1 Support Commitment for I/O Expansion Card / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing

1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria

2. MFS5000SI / MFSYS25 / MFSYS35 Base System Configurations

3. Supported Operating Systems & Software