 | IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express (7998-60X)
Network Server IBM | 13 Jul 2010
132989 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11 |
Product Description
Built on the promise of the IBM BladeCenter family of products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, scalability and manageability—the BladeCenter JS12 Express is an extremely affordable blade server with the capability to run Linux applications—concurrently if desired. The JS12 Express broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can put this power to work. Powered by the latest IBM processor technology, POWER6™, the JS12 Express provides outstanding price/performance in a commercial IT environment; superior reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) characteristics; high energy efficiency; and outstanding built-in PowerVM™ virtualization to help achieve increased system utilization. The feature-rich, JS12 Express will bring significant benefits to clients who want a durable server solution for consolidating multiple applications and servers into a single BladeCenter chassis transitioning from traditional rack-mount or tower servers to highly efficient blades and implementing commercial applications across a range of operating systems.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Blade Module |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | FA330_010 |
| CPU: | IBM POWER6™ 3.8 GHz |
| RAM: | 7 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | PCI Express X8 64-bit PCI-X |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | 2 Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | HLDS GCC4247N , USB |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1 |
Config Notes
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Referenced Bulletins
146181
Adapters and Drivers
| 2 IBM Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: ehea.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 127664 | ||||||||
| Checksum: ea6c273556004e8cf873bb1184c3e4d7 | |||||||||
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| IBM PCI-X DDR 3Gb SAS Adapter (572A/572C) | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 20-May-2010 | Driver Size: 174408 | ||||||||
| Checksum: a0fe11bae1391c9585b735b2ef4e4ad9 | |||||||||
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