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Servers

• Dell PowerEdge
  • C-series
    • C6220
    • C4130
    • C6320 (Haswell/Broadwell)
    • C6320P (bootable Xeon Phi)
    • C6420 (Skylake/Kabylake)
  • FX-series
    • FC430
  • M-series
  • T-series
    • T630
  • R-series
    • R420
    • R430
    • R515
    • R630
    • R640
    • R720
    • R730
  • M-Series
    • M1000e
  • Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
• HP Proliant
  • Legacy-BIOS configuration:
    • All HP Gen9 servers (Haswell/Broadwell CPU)
  • UEFI-BIOS configuration:
    • All HP Gen9 servers (Haswell/Broadwell CPU)
  • Legacy-BIOS configuration:
    • SL-series
      • apollo2000
    • DL-series
      • DL360G9
      • DL380G9
    • BL-series
      • C7000 10U Blade chassis
      • BL460cG8
      • BL460cG9
• SuperMicro
  • SuperServer
    • X10DRT-PIBF

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Storage

• Dell
  • PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC)
    • PERC H200 and SAS HBAs
    • PERC H300 and H330
    • PERC H700, H730, H800 and H830
  • PowerVault series
    • MD3060e SAS expansion enclosure
    • MD34x0 SAS arrays (MD3400, MD3420, MD3460)
    • MD3660i iSCSI array
  • EqualLogic Series
    • PS6200 PS6200 Series
• HP
  • MSA2040 SAS array
• Panasas
• Seagate/Xyratex

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Network switches

• Ethernet managed switches
  • Dell
    • PC2848 1Gb switch
    • PC3548 100baseT switch
    • PC5548 1Gb switch with 10Gb ports
    • PC6248 1Gb switch with module slots
    • N1000/N2000 series 1Gb Ethernet switches
    • N3000/N4000 series 10Gb Ethernet switches
    • S3048-ON 1Gb Ethernet switch
    • S6000 40Gb Ethernet switch
    • S6010 40Gb Ethernet switch
  • HP
    • HP1620 1Gb 48-port switch
    • HP2920 1Gb 48-port switch
    • HP5900 10Gb 48-port switch with QSFP ports
  • Cisco
• Infiniband
  • Qlogic/Intel
    • (QL)12200 and 12300 TrueScale QDR switch
    • Omnipath 100Gb switches
  • Mellanox
    • EDR Switch-IB SB7800
    • FDR Switch-IB SX6036

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Power distribution units

• Dell
  • Dell
• APC
  • APC 8653
  • APC 8886 3ph 32A monitored PDU
• HP
  • HP Intelligent PDU

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Hardware burn-in testing

• Basic server burn-in
  • Profile:Basic
• Extended server burn-in
  • Profile:Extended
• Basic fabric burn-in
  • Profile:Fabric-Basic
• Extended fabric burn-in
  • Profile:Fabric-Extended

Hardware burn-in test documentation

• Memtester
• HPL
• IOZone
• IMB
• GPUBurn

Software

User management

• FreeIPA

Operating System

• OpenStack ready images

Schedulers

• Slurm