IBM e-server xSeries 440 planning and installation guide / [David Watts ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watts, David.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client/server computing.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Web servers.

IBM computers--Programming.

IBM computers.

Physical Description:

xii, 184 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[United States?] : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Technical description

1.1 The x440 product line

1.2 System partitioning

1.3 IBM XA-32 chipset

1.4 Processors

1.4.1 Intel Xeon Processor MP

1.4.2 Intel Xeon Processor DP

1.5 SMP Expansion Module

1.6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache

1.7 System memory

1.8 PCI subsystem

1.9 Redundancy

1.10 Light Path Diagnostics

1.11 Remote Supervisor Adapter

1.12 Operating system support

1.13 IBM Director

Chapter 2. Positioning

2.1 xSeries 440 application solutions

2.1.1 Server consolidation

2.1.2 Enterprise applications

2.1.3 Infrastructure applications

2.1.4 Clustering

2.2 Why choose the x440

2.2.1 IBM XA-32 chipset

2.2.2 Intel Xeon MP and DP processors

2.2.3 XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache

2.2.4 High-performance memory subsystem

2.2.5 Active PCI-X

2.2.6 XpandOnDemand scalability

2.2.7 System Partition Manager

2.3 The benefits of system partitioning

2.4 Server consolidation

2.4.1 Types of server consolidation

2.4.2 Why consolidate servers

2.4.3 Benefits from server consolidation

Chapter 3. Planning

3.1 System hardware

3.1.1 Processors

3.1.2 Memory

3.1.3 PCI slot configuration

3.1.4 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller

3.2 Cabling and connectivity

3.2.1 SMP Expansion Module connectivity

3.2.2 Remote Supervisor Adapter connectivity

3.2.3 Remote Expansion Enclosure

3.2.4 Serial connections

3.3 Storage considerations

3.3.1 xSeries storage solutions

3.3.2 Disk subsystem performance

3.3.3 Tape backup

3.4 Server partitioning and consolidation

3.5 Operating system considerations

3.5.1 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

3.5.2 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition

3.5.3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

3.5.4 Microsoft Windows .NET Server

3.5.5 Novell NetWare

3.5.6 Red Hat/SuSE Linux

3.5.7 VMware ESX Server

3.6 Application considerations

3.6.1 Scalability and performance considerations

3.6.2 SMP and server types

3.7 Rack installation

3.8 Power considerations

3.9 Solution Assurance Review

Chapter 4. Installation

4.1 System BIOS settings

4.1.1 Updating BIOS and firmware

4.1.2 Enabling memory mirroring

4.1.3 Enabling Hyper-Threading

4.2 Device drivers

4.3 Operating system installation

4.3.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server

4.3.2 Red Hat Linux installation

4.3.3 NetWare installation

4.3.4 VMware ESX Server

4.4 Additional Information

Chapter 5. Management

5.1 Active PCI Manager

5.1.1 Using Active PCI Manager

5.1.2 Adding adapters to the system

5.1.3 Analyzing an existing configuration

5.2 System Partition Manager

5.3 Process Control

5.3.1 Process alias rules

5.3.2 Process execution rules

5.3.3 Group process execution rules

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"October 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

560312101