Certifications

Additional Notes

1. Certification notes for the BladeSymphony (Hitachi Compute Blade) 2000 including hardware partitioning (also known as Virtage in Japan) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2. What is "Virtage"?*

   What is Hitachi's Host Bus Adapter (HBA), why does it use an additional binary driver and why doesn't Red Hat support it directly?

   Why do the PCIIDs change on my NICs when I change from "dedicated" to "shared" mode on my BladeSymphony server via the Virtage hardware partitioning firmware when this function is enabled?

   Why does my video change when I enable Virtage hardware partitioning?

   Why does Virtage(version 97) with KVM requires a VT-x(Intel Virtualization Technology) feature enabled on logical partitions.

   Potential performance impact for a RHEL or RHEV hypervisor when I enable Virtage on my Hitachi server.

   Certification notes for the BladeSymphony (Hitachi Compute Blade) 2000 including hardware partitioning (also known as Virtage in Japan) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

   Which version is certified for RHEL on the BladeSymphony (Hitachi Compute Blade) 2000 including hardware partitioning (also known as Virtage in Japan)

3. What is "Virtage"?*

   What is Hitachi's Host Bus Adapter (HBA), why does it use an additional binary driver and why doesn't Red Hat support it directly?

   Why do the PCIIDs change on my NICs when I change from "dedicated" to "shared" mode on my BladeSymphony server via the Virtage hardware partitioning firmware when this function is enabled?

   Why does my video change when I enable Virtage hardware partitioning?

   What version of RHEL 5 is required for Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller?

   Which version is certified for RHEL on the BladeSymphony (Hitachi Compute Blade) 2000 including hardware partitioning (also known as Virtage in Japan)

4. What is "Virtage"?*
   Why does my video change when I enable Virtage hardware partitioning?
   Why do the PCIIDs change on my NICs when I change from "dedicated" to "shared" mode on my BladeSymphony server via the Virtage hardware partitioning firmware when this function is enabled?
   Why does Virtage(version 97) with KVM requires a VT-x(Intel Virtualization Technology) feature enabled on logical partitions.
   Potential performance impact for a RHEL or RHEV hypervisor when I enable Virtage on my Hitachi server.
   What is Hitachi's Host Bus Adapter (HBA), why does it use an additional binary driver and why doesn't Red Hat support it directly?
   
5. What is "Virtage"?*
   Why does my video change when I enable Virtage hardware partitioning?
   Why do the PCIIDs change on my NICs when I change from "dedicated" to "shared" mode on my BladeSymphony server via the Virtage hardware partitioning firmware when this function is enabled?
   Why does Virtage(version 97) with KVM requires a VT-x(Intel Virtualization Technology) feature enabled on logical partitions.
   Potential performance impact for a RHEL or RHEV hypervisor when I enable Virtage on my Hitachi server.
   What is Hitachi's Host Bus Adapter (HBA), why does it use an additional binary driver and why doesn't Red Hat support it directly?