Intel SSR212CC User manual

Intel® Storage System
SSR212CC
Tested Hardware and Operating
System List (THOL)
Revision 1.5
Aug, 2007
Server Platform Grou Technical Marketing

Revision History Intel® Storage System SSR212CC
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Revision History
Date
Revision
Number Modifications
May 19, 2006 1.0 Release copy.
July 20, 2006 1.1 Added updates for RoHS ECO: IOS 10. Added Enclosure Management
SW revisions.
November 6,
2006
1.2 Added SuSE 9.3 Professional OS support (Chapters 2 & 6), added
Western Digital 250 & 320 G hard disk drives (Chapter 6), added 3
rd
Party
Software Application Support note (Chapter 3).
February 6,
2007
1.3 Added several new hard disk drives (Chapter 6).
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).

Intel® Storage System SSR212CC Disclaimers
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Table of Contents Intel® Storage System SSR212CC
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................5
1.1 Test Overview ........................................................................................................5
1.1.1 Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress Testing ...........................................5
1.2 Pass/Fail Test Criteria............................................................................................6
2. Su orted O erating Systems ..........................................................................................8
3. Su orted Software A lications .....................................................................................9
4. Su orted Client Systems ...............................................................................................10
5. Ada ters and Peri herals ................................................................................................11
5.1 SATA Host us Adapter.......................................................................................11
5.2 PCI NIC................................................................................................................11
5.3 Disk On Module™ (DOM) ....................................................................................11
5.4 US CD/DVD Drives............................................................................................11
5.5 US Floppy Drives ...............................................................................................11
5.6 US Flash Drive (Key) .........................................................................................12
5.7 US Hub ..............................................................................................................12
5.8 Keyboard..............................................................................................................12
5.9 Mouse ..................................................................................................................12
5.10 Keyboard, Video and Mouse (KVM) Switch..........................................................13
6. Hard Disk Drives...............................................................................................................14
7. Network Switches.............................................................................................................17

Intel® Storage System SSR212CC Introduction
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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 IOS 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.
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The latest version of the
operating system signifies the latest supported version
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.
1.1.1 Ada ter / Peri heral Com atibility 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.
Ada ter Com atibility: 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 Su ort Commitment for Ada ter / Peri heral Com atibility and Stress
Testing
Intel commits to provide the following level of customer support for operating systems that
receive Adapter / Peripheral Compatibility and Stress testing:
• 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.
• 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, IOS changes, firmware changes, or determining a customer
acceptable workaround for the issue.
• 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.
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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, 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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Intel® Storage System SSR212CC System Configuration 1
The following table lists the base system configuration tested. 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.
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Intel will only provide support for adapters and peripherals under the specified
system configuration and operating system versions with which they were
tested.
SE7501JR2
BIOS
Revision
SE7501JR2
BMC/IMM
Firmware
Revision
SE7501JR2
mBMC
Firmware
Revision
SE7501JR2
FRU/SDR
Back lane
Firmware
SRCS28X
Firmware
Revision
7.40
10.0 0.48
2.40 0.0.6 2.00 814G
Windows* Server 2003
based Enclosure
Management
Windows* Storage
Server based
Enclosure
Management
Linux* based
Enclosure
Management
Intel Server
Management
V 1.0.0-20 V 1.0.0-17 V 1.0.0-48 8.4

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2. Su orted O erating Systems
The following table provides a list of supported operating systems compatible with the Intel®
Storage System SSR212CC. Each of the listed operating systems was tested for compatibility
with Intel® Storage System SSR212CC system configuration listed in Section 1 of this
document.
Identifier
number O erating System
Base System Configuration
Tested & Ty e of Testing
1 Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP1. Configuration 1 – Compatibility &
Stress
2 Microsoft* Windows* Storage Server 2003. Configuration 1 – Compatibility &
Stress
3
Microsoft* Windows* Storage Server 2003, R2. (No
Enclousre Management Softwware GUI available for this
platform! Interface available in the form of a MMC plug-in
on support.intel.com.)
Configuration 1 – Compatibility &
Stress
4 Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* Server Edition 4, Update 2. Configuration 1 – Compatibility &
Stress
5 SuSE* Linux 9.3 Professional (32-bit and 64-bit). Configuration 1 – Compatibility &
Stress

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3. Su orted Software A lications
The following table provides a list of software applications compatible with the Intel® Storage
System SSR212CC. Each of the listed applications was tested for compatibility with Intel®
Storage System SSR212CC system configuration listed in Section 2 of this document.
Software A lication
Base System Configuration Tested &
Ty e of Testing
O erating
System
Microsoft* SQL Server 2000 with SP4 Configuration 1 – Compatibility 1
Microsoft* SQL Server 2005 Configuration 1 – Compatibility 1, 2
Oracle* 10G Enterprise Server Configuration 1 – Compatibility 4
NOTE: Several 3
rd
party independent software vendors (ISV’s) have performed their own
software application validation. Please contact the ISV’s directly for product information and
support. The current list of ISV’s can be found at
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ssr212cc/index.htm

Su orted Client Systems Intel® Storage System SSR212CC
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4. Su orted Client Systems
The following table provides a list of supported client systems* compatible with the Intel®
Storage System SSR212CC
* based on the Intel server board or system listed below.
Manuf Model O erating System Notes
Intel SE7520 D2 1, 2, 4.
Intel SE7221 K1-E 1, 2, 4.
Intel SE7525GP2 1, 2, 4.
Intel SE7320SP2 1, 2, 4.
Intel SE7210TP1-E 1, 2, 4.
Intel SSR212MA 1, 2, 4. iSCSI connectivity
Intel SS4000-E 1, 2, 4. CIFS connectivity

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5. Ada ters and Peri herals
Add-in adapter card and peripheral compatibility and stress testing will only be performed with
operating systems as indicated Chapter 2 of this document.
Manufacturer Model
Name
Model
Number Interface Comments OS
5.1 SATA Host Bus Ada ter
Intel Intel RAID
Controller SRCS28X PCI-X133 Pre-installed in SSR212CC PCI slots 2 & 3. 1, 2, 3, 4
5.2 PCI NIC
Intel
PRO/1000
MT Single
Port
Gigabit
Server
Adapter
PWLA8490
MT PCI-X133
Should be installed in
SSR212CC PCI slot 1 only.
Can not be aggregated with
the dual On- oard NICs.
1, 2, 3, 4
Intel
PRO/1000
MT Dual
Port
Gigabit
Server
Adapter
PWLA8492
MT
PCI-X133
Should be installed in
SSR212CC PCI slot 1 only.
Can not be aggregated with
the dual On- oard NICs.
1, 2, 3, 4
5.3 Disk On Module™ (DOM)
Power
Quotient
International
Co, Ltd (PQI)*
512 M
DJ0512M44
NG0
IDE Can be used to image a
bootable OS.
5.4 USB CD/DVD Drives
TEAC External
CD-ROM
CDW552G/K
IT/US 2
US 2.0 1, 2, 4
Plextor
External
US CD-
RW/DVD-
RW drive
PX-740UF
US 2.0 1, 2, 4
5.5 USB Flo y Drives
Sony
VAIO
External 3
½” Floppy
drive
PCGA-UFD5 US 1, 2, 4

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Manufacturer Model
Name
Model
Number Interface Comments OS
TEAC
External 3
½” Floppy
drive
FD-05PU
US 1, 2, 4
5.6 USB Flash Drive (Key)
Iomega Micro Mini™
1G Drive
SKU 33136
US 2.0
ecause of chassis
mechanical interfernce, you
must use either a US
extension cable, or a US
Hub with this device.
1, 2, 4
Lexar 1G US
Flash Drive
JD1G -80-
231
US 2.0
ecause of chassis
mechanical interfernce, you
must use either a US
extension cable, or a US
Hub with this device.
1, 2, 4
Memina
1G Pocket
Rocket
Flash Drive
8292221201
01
US 2.0 1, 2, 4
5.7 USB Hub
elkin 4 port Hub
F5U231
US 2.0 1, 2, 4
Dlink 7 port Hub
HU -H7
US 2.0 1, 2, 4
5.8 Keyboard
AOPen Keyboard
K -858
PS/2 1, 2, 3, 4
Keytronic
PRO Pilot
Keyboard
Pro Pilot
PS/2 1, 2, 3, 4
5.9 Mouse
Logictech
MX310
Optical
Mouse
830823-0000
PS/2 & US 1, 2, 3, 4
Logictech Optical
Mouse
831087-
A000
PS/2 & US 1, 2, 3, 4
Microsoft Intellimouse
Optical
X09-52405
PS/2 & US 1, 2, 3, 4

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Manufacturer Model
Name
Model
Number Interface Comments OS
5.10 Keyboard, Video and Mouse (KVM) Switch
elkin
Omniview
PRO2
Series 8
port
keyboard/m
ouse/video
(KVM)
F1DA108T
PS/2 1, 2, 3, 4
Raritan
IP Reach /
Master
Console II 8
port
keyboard/m
ouse/video
(KVM)
MCC8
PS/2 1, 2, 3, 4

Hard Disk Drives Intel® Storage System SSR212CC
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6. Hard Disk Drives
The hard drives listed in the following table have been tested with the Intel® Storage System
SSR212CC by Intel in its validation labs and/or by individual drive vendors. The following
operating system identifiers are used in the table to specify which OS each drive was tested
under.
Identifier number O erating System
1 Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP1.
2 Microsoft* Windows* Storage Server 2003.
3 Microsoft* Windows* Storage Server 2003, R2.
4 Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* Server Edition 4, Update 2.
5 SuSE* Linux 9.3 Professional (32-bit and 64-bit).
6 SuSE* Enterprise Linux 10.1 (32-bit and 64-bit).
Note that not all hard drives were tested under all operating systems. The following notation is
used in the tested hard drives table below to indicate the support level that Intel provides for a
particular hard drive with a particular operating system:
Number (i.e. 1) This hard drive has been tested and is supported under the operating system
identified by the operating system identification number.
SD (Similar Drive)
The hard disk drive is supported, but not tested. This hard drive model/capacity has
not been tested with the SSR212CC, but Intel will support it based on successful
testing of a larger capacity hard drive from the same hard drive family. Intel has high
confidence that this hard drive will function correctly with the server board. This drive
uses the exact same firmware and drivers as a larger capacity hard drive that has
been successfully tested with this server board. The only difference between this
drive and the one that was used in testing is the storage capacity. Intel provides the
same level of support for all hard drives listed in this document, regardless of
whether the drive was tested or not. Customers should always test hard drives as
part of the final system configuration prior to deployment. Given the fact that a larger
capacity hard drive from the same drive family has successfully completed testing on
the SSR212CC, this particular hard drive capacity point will not be tested.
IHVT (IHV Tested)
The hard disk drive was tested according to Intel-approved guidelines and test
procedures by the Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) that manufactured the drive.
Intel provides the same level of support for all hard drives listed in this document,
regardless of whether the drive was tested in an Intel lab or not. IHV test reports
remain the property of the IHV (Intel cannot provide copies of these reports).

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Manufacturer Product
Family Model Number Interface RPM
Drive
size
(GB)
Tested
firmware
revision
Notes/OS
Tested
3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA II)
Hard Drives a
Hitachi
Deskstar
7K500 HDS725050KLA360
SATA/300 7200 500 K2A0 1, 2, 3, 4
Hitachi
Deskstar
7K500 HDS725050VLA360
SATA/300 7200 500 V560A52A SD
Hitachi
Gemini-K
7K1000 HDS721010KLA330
SATA/300 7200 1000 70M 1,2,3,4,6,
IHVT
Hitachi
Gemini-K
7K1000 HDS721075KLA330
SATA/300 7200 750 70M 1,2,3,4,6,
IHVT
Hitachi
Gemini-K
7K1000 HUA721010KLA330
SATA/300 7200 1000 70M SD
Hitachi
Gemini-K
7K1000 HUA721075KLA330
SATA/300 7200 750 70M SD
Hitachi
Gemini-K
7K1000 HUA721050KLA330
SATA/300 7200 500 70M SD
Hitachi
Kurofune-II
E7K500 HDS725050KLA360
SATA/300 7200 500 D1A 1,2,3,4,6,
IHVT
Maxtor
Maxline Pro 7H500F0
SATA/300 7200 500 HA43 1, 2, 3, 4
Seagate
NL35 ST3500641NS
SATA/300 7200 500 3.AEH 1, 2, 3, 4
Seagate
NL35 ST3500841NS
SATA/300 7200 500 3.AEH SD
Seagate
NL35.2 ST3250824NS
3 Gbps 7200 250 3.03 SD
Seagate
NL35.2 ST3250624NS
3 Gbps 7200 250 3.03 SD
Seagate
NL35.2 ST3400833NS
3 Gbps 7200 400 3.03 SD
Seagate
NL35.2 ST3400633NS
3 Gbps 7200 400 3.03 SD
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3750840NS
3 Gbps 7200 750 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3750640NS
3 Gbps 7200 750 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3500830NS
3 Gbps 7200 500 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3500630NS
3 Gbps 7200 500 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3400820NS
3 Gbps 7200 400 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3400620NS
3 Gbps 7200 400 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda ST3320820NS
3 Gbps 7200 320 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT

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Manufacturer Product
Family Model Number Interface RPM
Drive
size
(GB)
Tested
firmware
revision
Notes/OS
Tested
ES 7200.8
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3320620NS
3 Gbps 7200 320 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3250820NS
3 Gbps 7200 250 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Seagate
arracuda
ES 7200.8 ST3250620NS
3 Gbps 7200 250 3.AEG 1,4, IHVT
Western
Digital
Raid
Edition 2 WD5000YS
SATA/300 7200 500 0.70 1, 2, 3, 4
Western
Digital
Raid
Edition WD3200YS
SATA/300 7200 320 21.00M21 1,5
Western
Digital
Raid
Edition WD2500YS
SATA/300 7200 250 20.06C03 4, 5
1.5 Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA I)
Hard Drives a
Seagate
arracuda
7200.8
ST3400832AS
SATA/150 7200 400 3.03 1, 2, 3, 4
Seagate
arracuda
7200.8
ST3250823AS
SATA/150 7200 250 3.03 SD
Seagate
NL35 ST3400632NS
SATA/150 7200 400 5.01 1, 2, 3, 4
Seagate
NL35 ST3250823NS
SATA/150 7200 250 5.0 1, 2, 3, 4
Western Digital
Caviar
EL 150 WD1500ADFD
SATA/150 10,000 150 20.0 1, 2, 3, 4
Western Digital
Caviar
EL 150 WD1500AHFD
SATA/150 10,000 150 20.0 SD
NOTES:
a. Requires specific Hard Disk Drive Firmware revision listed in table, or later.

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7. Network Switches
The network switches listed in the following table have been tested with the Intel® Storage
System SSR212CC by Intel in its validation labs.
Manufacturer Model Name Ty e Notes
3Com
SuperStack 3 3870
10/100/1000
Ethernet
3Com
SuperStack 2 3900
10/100 Ethernet
3Com
SuperStack 3 4924
10/100/1000
Ethernet
Asante
IntraCore 36480
10/100/1000
Ethernet
Dell
PowerConnect 5324 /
PC5324
10/100/1000
Ethernet