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| 1.
What is one of the biggest features of the SR101 over other products in
the server market? |
| It was not designed by multiple companies lacking a common
focus. The SR101 was designed by Gigabyte for ultra high density, rack
optimized operating environments. The goal - eliminate the technical
obstacles that arise when using assemblies designed and manufactured by
multiple manufacturers who lack a common focus and direction. |
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| 2.
What base technology does Gigabyte bring to the SR101? |
| First Gigabyte is one of 3 motherboard manufacturers world
wide who have the design and manufacturing facilities plus the
experience of shipping over a 1 million motherboards a month. These are
motherboards that are executing virtually every operating system
designed to be run on an Intel based platform. Gigabyte then designed an
efficient environment to put the motherboard into, an environment based
exclusively on a rack optimized 1U chassis design. |
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| 3. Why
do you call the SR101 a server platform? |
| A server platform is a product, made up with what we
classify as non commodity components such as motherboard, chassis, power
supply, signal and power distribution systems with an efficient cooling
system. It is that stable platform that you add your commodity products
such as processor(s), memory, disk drive(s), OS and application
software. |
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| 4.
What chipset is Gigabyte using in the SR101 and why? |
| We selected the VIA Apollo Pro chipset because it supports
a 133MHz FSB bus for increased bandwidth, a high speed 133MHz memory bus
with their Virtual Channel Ram that uses registered SDRAM ECC DIMM or
VC133 DRAM for superior memory performance, flexible memory
configurations at minimal cost. These advanced memory technologies
provide the bandwidth and performance necessary for even the most
demanding of applications. |
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| 5. What
options are available for the SR101? |
| We have one option, Rackslides. |
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| 6 .What
operating systems does the SR101 support? |
| The SR101 supports Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux (RED
HAT 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, SuSE 7.1,7.2) & Netware 5.1. |
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| 7. Do
you sell your products to companies who OEM or private label products
like your server platforms? |
| Yes. We sell our products to the channel, OEM’s and
companies that private label products. We can put together a product and
support program to match the unique market needs of each class of
customer. |
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| 8. Is
the SR101 Microsoft certified? |
| Yes. You can find the SR101 listed on Microsoft Hardware
Certification List web site located at http://www.microsoft.com/hwtest/hcl. |
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| 9. What
type of drives can we put into the SR101 drive bays? |
| The drive bays are designed to handle any 1 inch high
ULTRA 66/100 disk drives. |
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| 10. Does
the SR101 have an integrated RAID function? |
| Yes. The SR101 has an integrated RAID 0 & 1 controller
chipset that is manufactured by Promise Technology Inc. The Chip set
support RAID 0 - disk stripping - for increased disk performance and
RAID 1 - disk mirroring - for drive fault tolerance. To enhance the RAID
1 function, the SR101 also has supports hot swappable drives. Should one
of the drives fail in a RAID 1 mode, it allows the failed drive to be
replaced without taking the system down. |
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| 11. What
benefits are provided by having an integrated RAID controller? |
The integrated RAID function offers the following
benefits:
a. With RAID 0, you can increase the performance
of your hard drives by splitting the movement of data equally
between the drives.
b. With RAID 1, you get an extra level of
protection from hard drive failure. With this feature, if a drive fails,
the
system will continue
operating on the surviving drive.
c. It saves you a PCI slot. |
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| 12. How
does RAID recovery work under condition of a failed hard drive |
There are two levels of recovery that can take place. They
are:
a. First is at the RAID BIOS level. The BIOS
program allows users to copy the complete hard drive image from one
to the other.
b. The other recovery is done after the system
boot-up, where the RAID utility program will automatically rebuild
data on the replaced drive. |
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| 13. What
operating systems does the Promise RAID chipset support |
| At the present time it supports Windows NT & 2000 and
Linux, Red Hat 7.0 & 7.2. This list will be updated frequently,
contact us if you are using a different operating system or a version of
Linux that is different from that used by Red Hat 7.2. |
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| 14. What
are the benefits of having hot-swappable hard drives? Is there any
performance delay? |
| The effort of changing a defective hard drive has been
reduced to a simple pull out action without having to open the chassis.
While the system is rebuilding the new drive, the operating system and
applications continue running. The network clients should not see any
differences cause by the drive rebuild operation. |
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| 15. If
I am using a operating system different then that supported by the
Promise RAID Chipset, is there a way that I can by pass the Promise RAID
chipset and connect directly to the drive bays? |
| Yes. By re-arranging the ATA cables inside the SR101 you
can by pass the Promise RAID chip set and connect the drive bays
directly to the on board ATA 66 drive ports. By doing this you will no
longer have hot swap capability because this functionality is built into
the Promise Chip set and associated RAID software. |
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| 16. What
Processors does the SR101 support? |
| The SR101 supports Intel Pentium III processors with
speeds up to 1GHz. |
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| 17. Does
the SR101 support dual processor configurations? |
| Yes. An added feature of the SR101 is that you can start
with a single processor configuration and as your server requirements
grow, you can add a second processor later. |
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| 18. What
memory does the SR101 use? |
| Up to 4 GB of PC133MHz ECC SDRAM memory. |
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| 19. How
do I expand the SR101 memory? |
| Maximum memory configuration is attained by installing
four 1024MB 133MHz registered ECC SDRAM DIMMs (one in each DIMM socket).
Memory can be expanded 1 DIMM module at a time. |
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| 20. What
are some of the benefits of having a built in dual NIC controller? |
- Extra PCI slots - having dual embedded NIC cards does not consume
PCI slots. In a 1U rack optimized package, the SR101 can be applied
to applications not available to other manufacturers.
- Fail over - the dual NIC is able to work like a single NIC card.
If one should fail, the other takes over with users not experiencing
any difference in network performance.
- Load balancing - as mentioned above the dual NIC work like one,
each sharing the network traffic, effectively doubling the sever I/O
bandwidth, resulting in better network performance.
- Firewall- the dual NIC configuration has the capability to provide
firewall function by using one NIC port for outside Internet and the
other for local area traffic.
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| 21. Does
the SR101 contain any internal monitoring and reporting functions? |
| Yes. The SR101 has an ACPI (Advanced Configuration &
Power Interface) function built into the motherboard. Some of the
functions monitored by the ACPI function monitors are the presence of a
second CPU, fan speed & temperature for each CPU, system temperature
& Voltages. If the installed operating system supports the ACPI
function, as Windows does, the operating can perform tasks like
automatically power itself off if the CPU temperature exceeds
pre-selected limits. |
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