Re: Re: ibm e326 + dual core amd + certified

Message: 3 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:44:28 -0400 From: Brian Long
<[email protected]> Subject: Re: ibm e326 + dual core amd + certified
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)"
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<1147365868.4335.32.camel@brilong-lnx> Content-Type: text/plain On Thu,
2006-05-11 at 17:17 +0100, bob flynn wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am getting somewhat lost on the Red Hat hardware support database, so
>> someone might be able to help me.
>> 
>> Two questions.
>> 
>> 1. Are any version of the IBM e326 or e326m servers, running 2 x dual
>> core AMD processors certified and supported by Red Hat and IBM.
>  
>

Just browsing IBM's site found the following:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/nos/redchata.html

It's typically best to find the certifications from the hardware
vendor's site, but watch out for proprietary driver disks.  For example,
Sun says their Gigaswift Fiber Gigabit card is certified with RHEL.  In
actuality, it's certified by them and it requires you to download a
tarball and compile on your Linux host.    If you run into issues
with that card, Red Hat will not help.


>> 2. Is this a restriction redhat licensing on 2 x dual core AMD, ie
>> forcing to go from WS to ES. I am aware of the 2 processor limit in
>> relation to WS, but am unsure how dual-core is treated.
>  
>

If you visit http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/server/, look at
subscript #3.



/Brian/

Brian,

thanks for the reply.

Subscript #3 is pretty clear, so a 2 x dual core opteron system should be treated as 2 cpu so WS should be sufficent.

Looking at the link on the IBM site, it confirms that the e326 is certified, but says nothing about the e326m,

hence my query.

it may well be that this page has not been updated, but it would be reassuring to hear from someone who had gone through this before. The alternative is to ask IBM I guess.




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