Enterprise Server 5.2

Technical specifications

Contents – Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2

Base system

Kernel Linux 2.6.27 and 2.6.33
Xen 3.3.1
KVM
Duplicating systems Ka, Dolly, Dolly+
OpenSSH
xz 5.0.0
busybox 1.16
uClibc 0.9.30
squashfs-tools 4.0
pciutils 3.14
pciids 0.7-1.20101209

Middleware Stacks

OpenLDAP 2.4
Kerberos 5

Application servers

Tomcat
Sun JDK, JRE (1.5 et 1.6)
OpenJDK
Jonas

File sharing and printer sharing

NFS
SAMBA 3.3
CUPS 1.3
WebDAV

Network

PXE
DHCP
FTP (Proftpd, Pure-ftp)
DNS (BIND)
Nagios
IPTables
OpenVPN

Messaging systems

serveur SMTP (Postfix 2.5, Sendmail)
POP & IMAP (Cyrus-IMAP 2.3, Courier-IMAP 3.0, Dovecot)
Listes (Mailman, Sympa)
Webmail (Roundcube, squirrelmail)
Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Dansguardian)
Anti-virus (ClamAV)

Web hosting

Apache 2.2
PHP 5.2
Perl 5.10
Squid 3.0

Databases

MySQL 5.0
PostgreSQL 8.3
sqlite3

Back-ups

Bacula 3.0.1

MES 5.2 extended support

MES 5.2 includes a broader set of drivers to support more devices during the installation process. The kernel release 2.6.33.7 is used. The following drivers have been added:

Network

Solos PCI driver (solos-pci)
MSC LAN9420 10/100 PCI Ethernet adapter
VMware vmxnet3 virtual NIC driver (vmxnet3)
Atheros 1000M Ethernet network driver (atl1c)
ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps NICDriver 2.101.346u (be2net)

IDE

PCI driver module for the ITE 821x (it821x)

SCSI

ServerEngines BladeEngine2Linux iSCSI Driver version2.0.527.0 Driver
2.0.527.0 (be2iscsi)
Brocade Fibre Channel HBA Driver fcpim (bfa)
LSI MPT Fusion SAS 2.0 Device Driver (mptsas2)
Acculogic ISApport and NCR53c406a SCSI driver (NCR53c406a)
Workbit NinjaSCSI-32Bi/UDE CardBus/PCI SCSI host bus adapter module
nsp32
PMC-Sierra PM8001 SAS/SATA controller driver (pm8001)
VMware PVSCSI driver (vmw_pvscsi)
Driver for the WD7000 series ISA controllers (wd7000)

RAID

LSI 3ware SAS/SATA-RAID Linux Driver (3w-sas)
Driver for HP Smart Array Controller version 1.0.0 (hpsa)
IBM ServeRAID Adapter Driver 7.12.05 (ips)
PMC Sierra MaxRAID Controller Driver (pmcraid)

GPT support

It is now possible to switch the partition table type to GPT mode, and to create partitions that are larger than 2TB. This feature is available in text mode, using a console and parted tools. *

New media 5.2stack

A new media has been created to handle the new stack of hardware drivers using the kernel 2.6.33.7. This media has to be added after the installation of the MES 5.2 ISO, as it is disabled by default.

urpmi.addmedia 5.2stack https://login:mdp@download.mandriva.com/EnterpriseServer5.2/rpms/$ARCH/media/5.2stack/release
urpmi.addmedia 5.2stack-updates https://login:mdp@download.mandriva.com/EnterpriseServer5.2/rpms/$ARCH/media/5.2stack/updates

Replace $ARCH by i586 or x86_64.

Minimum configuration required

Processor

All Intel, AMD and VIA processors.

Memory and storage

RAM: 512 MB minimum, 1 GB recommended.

Hard disk: 2 GB minimum, 4 GB recommended.

Graphics card

nVidia, ATI, Intel i8xx à x4500HD, SiS, Matrox, VIA.

Other

SATA, IDE, SCSI, SAS, SAS2: most controllers are supported.

*: Start the installation. After the language step installation, swith to the console (alt+F2). Use parted tools to swith your partition table to GPT type (default should be msdos) :
1. parted -l
2. parted /dev/sda mklabel gpt
Reboot your box, to be sure it has been taken into account. You can now create your system partition on an hard drive with GPT partition table. /boot must be put on a primary partition that is smaller than 2 Tb. You must create partition bigger than 2Tb after the partition step or after the first reboot. Parted tools must be used, so refer to the parted manual to create manually your big partition. Once done adjust your /etc/fstab to reflect your changement.