Intel SSR212CC Tested Hardware And Operating System List

Intel® Storage System
SSR212CC

Tested Hardware and Operating
System List (THOL)

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Aug, 2007

Server Platform Group Technical Marketing

Revision History Intel® Storage System SSR212CC

Revision History

Revision

Date

May 19, 2006 1.0 Release copy.

July 20, 2006 1.1 Added updates for RoHS ECO: BIOS 10. Added Enclosure Management

November 6,
2006

February 6,
2007

March 8, 2007 1.4 Added several new hard disk drives (Chapter 6).

August 20, 2007 1.5 Added several new hard disk drives (Chapter 6).

Number Modifications

SW revisions.

1.2 Added SuSE 9.3 Professional OS support (Chapters 2 & 6), added
Western Digital 250 & 320 GB hard disk drives (Chapter 6), added 3rd Party
Software Application Support note (Chapter 3).

1.3 Added several new hard disk drives (Chapter 6).

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Intel® Storage System SSR212CC Disclaimers

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 OTHERW ISE
ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION, OR SAMPLE.

Information in this document is provided in connection with Intel® products. No license, express or implied, by estoppel or
otherwise, to any intellectual property rights is granted by this document. Except as provided in Intel's Terms and Conditions of Sale
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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.

Copyright © Intel Corporation 2006. All rights reserved.

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.

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Table of Contents Intel® Storage System SSR212CC

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................5

1.1

1.1.1

1.2

2. Supported Operating Systems ..........................................................................................8

3. Supported Software Applications .....................................................................................9

4. Supported Client Systems ...............................................................................................10

5. Adapters and Peripherals ................................................................................................11

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

5.7

5.8

Test Overview ........................................................................................................5

Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing ...........................................5

Pass/Fail Test Criteria ............................................................................................6

SATA Host Bus Adapter.......................................................................................11

PCI NIC................................................................................................................11

Disk On Module™ (DOM) ....................................................................................11

USB CD/DVD Drives............................................................................................11

USB Floppy Drives...............................................................................................11

USB Flash Drive (Key) .........................................................................................12

USB Hub ..............................................................................................................12

Keyboard..............................................................................................................12

5.9

5.10

6. Hard Disk Drives...............................................................................................................14

7. Network Switches.............................................................................................................17

Mouse ..................................................................................................................12

Keyboard, Video and Mouse (KVM) Switch..........................................................13

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Intel® Storage System SSR212CC Introduction

operating system signifies the latest supported version

Each new release of this document may have

a newly supported release of a given operating system. Previous releases of a

1. Introduction

This document is intended to provide users of the Intel® Storage System SSR212CC with a
guide to the different operating systems, adapter cards, and peripherals tested by Intel on this
platform.

This document will continue to be updated as new adapters, peripherals, and operating
systems are tested or until the Intel® Storage System SSR212CC is 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 adapters 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® Storage System SSR212CC is classified as Adapter /
Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing.

The latest version of the

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at the time of the actual test run.

supported operating system may not be tested beyond the basic installation
test process.

1.1.1 Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing

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

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

Adapter Compatibility: Adapter compatibility validation (CV) testing uses test suites to gain an
accurate view of how the platform performs with adapters under the operating system. 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 Ethernet add-in adapters
in the one available slot, or a minimum 24-hour test run without injecting errors. Each
configuration passes an installation test, a Network/Disk Stress test. Any fatal errors that occur
will require a complete test restart.

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1.1.1.1 Support Commitment for Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress
Testing

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

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Intel will provide support for customer issues with the operating system involving
installation and/or functionality of the server board with or without the adapters and
peripherals listed in this document as having been tested under the particular operating
system.

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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.

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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

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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, adapter, 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 were used for the

operating system installation.

• No extraordinary workarounds were required during the operating system installation.

• The SSR212CC 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® Storage System SSR212CC testing was performed using its 2U rail mount chassis.

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