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technology, whereas the new Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge-EP are a 22 nm thus delivering higher density and more
performance within the same power envelope.
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (kernel-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64)
RHEL 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64) is the minimum supported Operating System for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP
processors. Some of the highlights of RHEL 6.4:
1. Updated Resource Management Capabilities.
2. New Tools and Improved Productivity Support.
3. Updated network drivers and fixes for supported Intel, Broadcom network adapters.
Mellanox OFED 2.0-3
Support for Mellanox OFED 2.0-3 has been added. MLNX OFED 2.0-3 OFED includes drivers for mlx4 devices
(ConnectX3 and ConnectX2) and mlx5 devices (ConnectIB). Devices that would be officially supported are
ConnectX3 and ConnectX2 with signaling rates of 20, 40 and 56Gbps in the Infiniband mode.
PEC Tools for systems management of PE-C servers
PEC Tools are the official tools for systems management on PowerEdge-C servers. These tools can be used for
configuring BMC and BIOS parameters. The tools are included in the BCM 6.1 under the folder /opt/dell/pec.
Examples of tool usage:
/opt/dell/pec/setupbios setting save > filename (To save the BIOS settings)
/opt/dell/pec/setupbios setting readfile filename (To read and apply settings from a saved file)
/opt/dell/pec/setupbios setting set [setting] [value] (To set value for a particular option)
Hardware Match Check by BCM
This tool is available with the Bright Cluster Manager. It is used to compare a large number of nodes that want to be
added to a cluster. BCM provides this feature to check the consistency of the hardware across nodes. This is done by
comparing the hardware profile of one of the nodes with the rest of the nodes in the same node group. The hardware