IBM 450 xSeries, Planning And Installation Manual

Page 1: ...Gerry McGettigan Michael L Nelson Lubos Nikolini Jose Rodriguez Ruibal Describes the technical details of the new 64 bit server CoversWindows Server2003and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Helps you prepare for and perform an installation Front cover Click here to check for updates ...

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Page 4: ...ights Use duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp First Edition July 2003 This edition applies to the IBM xSeries 450 machine type 8688 This document was updated on July 1 2003 Note Before using this information and the product it supports read the information in Notices on page vii ...

Page 5: ...0 1 5 System assembly 13 1 5 1 Memory board assembly 14 1 5 2 Processor board assembly 15 1 6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache 17 1 7 System memory 17 1 8 PCI subsystem 21 1 9 Redundancy 23 1 10 Light path diagnostics 25 1 11 Remote Supervisor Adapter 26 1 12 Operating system support 27 Chapter 2 Positioning 29 2 1 x450 application solutions 30 2 1 1 Database applications 30 2 1 2 Business logic...

Page 6: ...nd Setup utility 83 4 1 4 Diagnostic utility 84 4 1 5 Boot maintenance menu 85 4 2 Installing Windows Server 2003 86 4 2 1 Overall process 87 4 2 2 Microsoft Reserved Partition 88 4 2 3 Windows installation 89 4 2 4 Pre installation phase 89 4 2 5 Starting the installation 90 4 2 6 Text mode setup 91 4 2 7 GUI setup 93 4 2 8 Post setup phase 93 4 3 Installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 98 4 3 1 ...

Page 7: ... 1 6 Configuring the remote control password 125 5 2 Management using the Remote Supervisor Adapter 126 5 2 1 Configuring which alerts to monitor 126 5 2 2 Configuring SNMP 127 5 2 3 Sending alerts directly to IBM Director 128 5 2 4 Creating a test event action plan in IBM Director 130 Related publications 135 IBM Redbooks 135 Referenced Web sites 135 How to get IBM Redbooks 137 IBM Redbooks colle...

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Page 11: ...ration operating system specifics scalability and physical site planning Chapter 4 Installation covers the process of installing Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on the x450 Chapter 5 Management describes how to use the Remote Supervisor Adapter to send alerts to an IBM Director management environment The team that wrote this redbook This redbook was produced...

Page 12: ...rs His areas of expertise include xSeries hardware Microsoft Windows and Citrix Lubos Nikolini is a Systems Engineer working for HT Computers a s in Bratislava Slovak Republic He has six years of experience with Microsoft operating systems Intel based hardware including IBM xSeries and Netfinity networking and storage technologies He is a Microsoft MCSE Citrix CCEA and a Compaq Proliant ASE His ar...

Page 13: ...eries Server Development Austin Roger Hellman xSeries Global Product Manager Raleigh William L Jones IBM xSeries Preloads Raleigh Michael S Lee IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies Seattle Grace Lennil IBM Center for Microsoft Technologies Seattle Cecil Lockett Senior Engineer Engineering Software Raleigh John McAbel Datacenter Cluster Product Manager Beaverton Chris McDermott Linux Technology Ce...

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Page 15: ...e 64 bit systems The following are the key features of the x450 One or two way Intel Itanium 2 models upgradable to four way 4U rack dense design 64 MB XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache providing an extra level of cache 1 GB or 2 GB RAM standard up to 40 GB total using 512 MB 1 GB and 2 GB ECC SDRAM DIMMs Memory enhancement such as memory mirroring Chipkill and Memory ProteXion Six Active PCI X slots...

Page 16: ...cKinley processor but these have been withdrawn due to a bug in these processors These models are listed in Table 1 2 Table 1 2 Withdrawn McKinley processor based models The x450 models support one two three and four processors The attachment of a single RXE 100 Remote Expansion Enclosure is also supported using either a single or two remote I O cables The RXE 100 has six PCI X slots standard upgr...

Page 17: ...chnologies to the IA 64 architecture The XA 64 chipset is composed of the following components Memory controller a single memory controller code named Cyclone located within the memory board assembly Processor cache controller a single processor and cache controller code named Tornado located within the processor board assembly PCI bridges two PCI bridges code named Winnipeg per x450 located on th...

Page 18: ...bed in 1 4 Intel Itanium 2 processor on page 10 To ensure the processors are optimally used the x450 has a 64 MB XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache comprised of 200 MHz DDR memory This L4 system cache services all CPUs Ultra320 SCSI Gigabit Ethernet Video 3x USB Serial RSA 33 MHz 66 MHz 64 bit 66 MHz 64 bit 100 MHz 64 bit 133 MHz Bus A 66 MHz RXE Expansion Port A 1 GBps B 100 D 133 C 133 IBM XA 64 Sum...

Page 19: ...ctivity to the RXE 100 enclosure The RXE 100 provides up to an additional 12 PCI X slots and can be connected by a single cable to port A The rear panel of the x450 indicating the location of the RXE Expansion Ports is shown in Figure 1 2 Figure 1 2 Rear view of the x450 1 3 Extensible Firmware Interface The Extensible Firmware Interface EFI specification describes an interface between the operati...

Page 20: ...s up a tight dependency between the operating system and the firmware thus speeding up the process of releasing the new products and introducing the new features and functionality both operating system and hardware Figure 1 3 The EFI concept Consider for example the situation where a new type of boot device for example a USB key is to be implemented First the BIOS would have to offer an option to ...

Page 21: ...s necessary Extended partitions are then subdivided into one or more logical disks On any given drive only one extended partition can be present In theory a GPT disk can have an unlimited number of partitions The number of partitions is limited only by the amount of space reserved for making partition entries GPT disks use primary and backup partition tables for redundancy and CRC32 fields for imp...

Page 22: ...chnology efi download htm 1 3 2 EFI System Partition A special partition on the GPT disk is EFI System Partition ESP It contains the OS loader files of all installed operating systems These files are stored in the EFI directory The ESP may also contain other files necessary to boot the system such as drivers Note GPT disks can be converted to MBR disks and vice versa only if all existing partition...

Page 23: ...al disk is calculated at the time that the ESP is created and does not change if the disk is extended later for example via RAID The ESP should be the first partition on the disk right after protective MBR as shown in Figure 1 5 Figure 1 5 Boot GPT disk structure The EFI specification supports only FAT or FAT32 on the ESP partition Note Each bootable GPT disk must contain an EFI System Partition N...

Page 24: ...ew boot devices The legacy devices are replaced by USB devices in x450 For more information about the EFI specification see the following http www intel com technology efi index htm http www microsoft com hwdev platform firmware EFI default asp 1 4 Intel Itanium 2 processor The Itanium 2 processor used in the x450 code named Madison uses a ZIF socket design although the socket is designed differen...

Page 25: ...at rated speed This additional level of cache saves decode time on cache hits The x450 also implements a Level 4 cache as described in 1 6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache on page 17 Intel has also introduced a number of features associated with its Itanium micro architecture These are available in the x450 including 400 MHz frontside bus The Pentium III Xeon processor had a 100 MHz frontside bu...

Page 26: ...uted is done on the chip itself leading to a great deal of overhead and slowing down overall processor performance Moreover today s processors are plagued by instruction flow problems since the processor often has to stop what it s doing and reconstruct the instruction flow due to inherent inefficiencies in instruction handling EPIC makes the instruction scheduling more intelligent and handles muc...

Page 27: ...ssemblies A single memory board assembly located at the top of the system which contains the physical DIMM s as well as the memory and I O controller A single processor board assembly located at the bottom of the system which contains the processors XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache and L4 Cache Scalability Controller See Figure 1 7 on page 14 for the location of the memory board and processor board ...

Page 28: ...he side of the midplane using two levers on the top This location allows for easy access to all memory DIMMs without having to remove any components from the system N O T E F O R P R O P E R A IR F L O W R E P L A C E FA N W IT H IN 2 M IN U T E S F R O N T O F B O X N O T E F O R P R O P E R A IR F L O W R E P L A C E FA N W IT H IN 2 M IN U T E S F R O N T O F B O X Processor board assembly Memo...

Page 29: ...Ds for the following Power to memory port 1 Power to memory port 2 Hot plug memory enabled For information about installing memory in the memory board assembly see 3 1 2 Memory on page 41 1 5 2 Processor board assembly The x450 processor board assembly is located under the memory board assembly as shown in Figure 1 7 on page 14 It is installed from the top of the server and mounts to the side of t...

Page 30: ...ton while the processor board assembly is not attached to AC power will illuminate any light path LEDs that had been lit while the system was under power for a total of 10 seconds Tip Be careful when removing or installing either the memory board assembly or the processor board assembly since it is possible to damage the midplane Important While processors should be installed in the order listed i...

Page 31: ...Ms Memory options are 512 MB 1 GB or 2 GB DIMMs There are a total of 28 DIMM sockets two ports of 14 All 28 DIMM sockets can be used to install DIMMs with the exception of the 2 GB DIMM option If 2 GB DIMMs are installed the total number of DIMM sockets that can be used is limited to 20 A maximum of 40 GB of system memory is supported by populating 20 DIMM sockets each with a 2 GB DIMM DIMMs must ...

Page 32: ...s memory errors that might be developing before they cause a server outage Memory scrubbing and Memory ProteXion work in conjunction with each other but they do not require memory mirroring as described below to be enabled to work properly When a bit error is detected memory scrubbing determines if the error is recoverable or not If it is recoverable Memory ProteXion is enabled and the data that w...

Page 33: ...ided in two ports and one port is mirrored to the other half see Figure 1 11 If 8 GB is installed then the operating system sees 4 GB once memory mirroring is enabled it is disabled in BIOS by default All mirroring activities are handled by the hardware without any additional support required from the operating system Figure 1 11 Memory DIMMs are divided into two ports When memory mirroring is ena...

Page 34: ...kill with Memory ProteXion and Active Memory the x450 provides very high reliability in the memory subsystem Chipkill memory is approximately 100 times more effective than ECC technology providing correction for up to 4 bits per DIMM whether on a single chip or multiple chips If a memory chip error does occur Chipkill is designed to automatically take the inoperative memory chip offline while the ...

Page 35: ...ate a light path diagnostics error since Memory ProteXion recovers from the problem automatically 2 Each memory port could then sustain a second chip failure without shutting down 3 Provided that memory mirroring is enabled the third chip failure on that port would send the alert and take the DIMM offline but keep the system running out of the redundant memory bank 1 8 PCI subsystem As shown in Fi...

Page 36: ...ce at all speeds 10 100 1000 Mbps auto negotiated and includes integrated on chip memory for buffering data transmissions to ensure the highest network performance and dual onboard RISC processors for advanced packet parsing and backwards compatibility with today s 10 100 network The Broadcom controller also includes software support for failover layer 3 load balancing and comprehensive diagnostic...

Page 37: ...em panels In the event of a fan failure the other fan will speed up to continue to provide adequate cooling until the fan can be hot swapped by the IT administrator The other two fans are located just behind the power supplies and provide cooling for the I O devices Similar to the SMP Expansion Module fans these fans will speed up in the event that one should fail to compensate for the reduction i...

Page 38: ...ayout of the front panel of the x450 showing the location of the drive bays power supplies and fans is shown in Figure 1 13 Figure 1 13 Front panel of the xSeries 450 Important Due to airflow requirements fans should not be removed for longer than two minutes The fan compartments need to be fully populated even if the fan is defective Therefore remove a defective fan only when a new fan is availab...

Page 39: ...ture Figure 1 14 Light path diagnostics panel on the x450 The light path diagnostics on the x450 has four levels 1 The first level is the front panel fault LED 2 Level 2 is the pop out panel as shown in Figure 1 14 3 For further investigation there are light path diagnostics LEDs visible through the top of the server This requires the server to be slid out of the rack Important If a light path dia...

Page 40: ...ou will not take immediate action If a new failure occurs the system error LED will turn on again and no longer blink The system error LED remains in the remind mode until one of the following situations occurs All known problems are resolved The system is restarted A new problem occurs at which time it then is illuminated continuously 1 11 Remote Supervisor Adapter The x450 includes a Remote Supe...

Page 41: ... POST Wake on LAN Remote firmware update LAN access Alert forwarding See the IBM Redbook Implementing Systems Management Solutions using IBM Director SG24 6188 for more information on the Remote Supervisor Adapter 1 12 Operating system support In line with the overall message of providing application flexibility to meet the varying needs of our enterprise customers the x450 is optimized for severa...

Page 42: ...nd Installation Guide Note While operating systems may support large systems scalability is a function of both the operating system and the application workload Few applications are designed to take advantage of larger SMP systems ...

Page 43: ...003 All rights reserved 29 Chapter 2 Positioning In this chapter we discuss topics that help you to understand how the x450 can be useful for your business The topics covered are x450 application solutions Why choose x450 2 ...

Page 44: ...n environments These include Database applications Business logic e business and security transactions In house developed compute intensive applications Science and technology Figure 2 1 xSeries 450 based solutions 2 1 1 Database applications Four way x450 configurations can be used as database servers and application servers providing a highly available platform These configurations require an ex...

Page 45: ... also benefit from a larger 3 MB third level and 64 MB XceL4 cache With such large cache the need to go to memory or disk for database transaction elements is greatly reduced and this directly implies a performance increase faster access to data and improved throughput Itanium 2 systems are likely to be able to hold database transaction records in cache during the entire transaction which enables ...

Page 46: ... of their enterprise applications for use on the x450 now including SAS Release 9 0 Windows version and SAP R 3 4 6C Windows Linux among others Independent software vendors such as JD Edwards Baan Invensys i2 Technologies PeopleSoft Veritas Computer Associates BMC Software and many others already offer a variety of products available in 64 bit version Business intelligence Business intelligence BI...

Page 47: ... for business critical applications at the lowest price performance ratio The x450 covers all high availability features for customers looking for servers to power their SCM solutions Customer relationship management Customer relationship management CRM is an information industry term for methodologies software and usually Internet capabilities that help an enterprise manage customer relationships...

Page 48: ...ltaneously For example the IPsec standard performs encryption on every packet sent over the network These packets frequently contain data that is encrypted itself As a result enterprises need platforms that can encrypt and decrypt data very quickly This is the time to deploy x450 with its 4 way SMP Itanium 2 processors each with two rather than one floating point units two memory ALU two integer A...

Page 49: ...capable of more than 14 billion floating point operations per second teraflops Itanium 2 features such as increased system memory bandwidth total number of 328 onboard registers including 128 floating point registers and thus high floating point performance speed up calculations and data analysis in S TC applications 2 2 Why choose x450 Modern enterprise applications require servers with significa...

Page 50: ...ip also supports intelligent prediction and speculation of events to deduce redundancy and improve performance The Itanium s floating point engine enhances performance for complex computations that are required for data mining scientific and technical applications The Itanium 2 processor is the second in a family of Intel enterprise class processors For more information about the Intel Itanium 2 p...

Page 51: ...ng of first level instruction cache first level data cache second level cache L2 and third level cache L3 In addition to ensure the processors are optimally used the x450 has a fourth level L4 system cache dedicated to the CPUs the 64 MB XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache The increased physical memory includes the following benefits for applications Each application can support more users For a compar...

Page 52: ...ty Another important aspect of Itanium 2 architecture is 32 bit compatibility Understanding that many applications will never need the processing power of 64 bit computing the chip will also support legacy software that relies on IA 32 architectures The x86 binaries applications running on IA 32 identical to those running on Pentium and Xeon processor based systems may execute on Itanium 2 without...

Page 53: ...scuss topics you need to consider before you finalize the configuration of your x450 system and before you begin implementing the system The topics covered are System hardware Cabling and connectivity Storage considerations Rack installation Power considerations Solution Assurance Review 3 ...

Page 54: ...odel The L2 and L3 cache run at the full speed of the processor A total of four processors can be installed in the x450 One two three or four processors can be installed Each processor within a node must be the same speed and cache size Each processor option includes the processor with heatsink pre assembled and its associated power module which is referred to as the power pod Processors must be i...

Page 55: ...pported memory modules http www ibm com pc us compat When installing memory DIMMs they must be installed in matched pairs size and technology in the order shown in Table 3 3 Table 3 3 DIMM order 2 1 3 4 Center plane Side of chassis Size Description Part number Max installable 512 MB PC2100 CL2 5 ECC DDR SDRAM 73P2027 28 1 GB PC2100 CL2 5 ECC DDR SDRAM 73P2028 28 2 GB PC2100 CL2 5 ECC DDR SDRAM 73P...

Page 56: ...the x450 for increased fault tolerance and high levels of availability 7 5 and 10 8 19 and 24 9 3 and 12 10 17 and 26 11 6 and 9 12 20 and 23 13 7 and 8 14 21 and 22 Restriction When 2 GB DIMMs are used a maximum of 20 DIMMs can be installed In such a configuration the last four pairs of sockets as shown in Table 3 3 must be left empty that is sockets 6 7 8 9 and 20 21 22 23 Pair Port 1 DIMM slots...

Page 57: ...rts are used to access memory simultaneously Consequently for maximum performance you must install four DIMMs of the same size at a time into a bank see Table 3 4 In this configuration all memory addresses are spread across all four DIMMs in the bank and when accessed both memory ports are used resulting in 6 4 GBps burst transfer rates Maximum performance can also be achieved with DIMMs of differ...

Page 58: ...ot 5 One 64 bit 133 MHz slot Bus D slot 6 One 64 bit 133 MHz slot These slots can accept adapters rated at speeds ranging from 33 MHz to 133 MHz You should also consider the following Each adapter has a maximum rated speed Each bus also has a maximum rated speed Installed adapters in a single bus will operate at the slowest of three speeds The rated speed of adapter 1 The rated speed of adapter 2 ...

Page 59: ...server is shown in Figure 3 3 on page 46 Important A PCI X and a PCI adapter can be installed in slots on the same bus However those two adapters will both operate in PCI mode In addition if you have a PCI X adapter installed you cannot hot add a PCI adapter to the same bus This is because with just the PCI X adapter installed the bus is running in PCI X mode and you cannot hot add a PCI adapter i...

Page 60: ...ause there is little space between the top of the adapter and the cover when the covers are closed This could damage the SCSI cable Some long adapters have extension handles or brackets installed Before installing the adapter you must remove the extension handle or bracket The system scans PCI X slots to assign system resources The system attempts to start the first device found The search order i...

Page 61: ...er layer 3 load balancing and comprehensive diagnostics Category 5 or better Ethernet cabling is required with RJ 45 connectors If you plan to implement a Gigabit Ethernet connection ensure your network infrastructure is capable of the necessary throughput to match the server s I O capacity Adapter teaming The Broadcom controller is capable of participating in an adapter team for the purposes of f...

Page 62: ...driver software For the latest network adapter drivers and software for the x450 server go to the xSeries support page http www pc ibm com support For details about compatibility see the ServerProven LAN adapter page http www pc ibm com us compat lan matrix html 3 2 Cabling and connectivity There are a number of unique factors to consider when cabling the x450 server Remote Supervisor Adapter conn...

Page 63: ...s described in 1 3 Extensible Firmware Interface on page 5 After the operating system has booted the port is dedicated to the operating system as COM1 The RXE Expansion Ports provide connectivity to a RXE 100 Either a single cable in port A or two cables to both ports are supported Using two cables provides redundancy as well as additional throughput The external SCSI connector is for tape drive c...

Page 64: ...dapter connectors The following RSA connections need to be considered when cabling the x450 see Figure 3 5 External power supply connector This connector allows the RSA to be connected to its own independent power source This external power supply is not included with the x450 and will need to be ordered as an option order a ThinkPad 56W AC Adapter with a suitable power cord for your country regio...

Page 65: ...Kit part number 03K9309 for connection to an ASM interconnect network 3 2 2 Remote Expansion Enclosure The RXE 100 can be connected to the x450 to provide an additional six or 12 PCI X slots to the server Only one RXE 100 can be connected to the x450 although this can be with either one or two data cables The RXE 100 has six 133 MHz 64 bit PCI X slots as standard and can accept adapters with speed...

Page 66: ...ding which adapters to put in which slots consider the following Each adapter has a maximum rated speed Each bus also has a maximum rated speed Installed adapters will operate at the slowest of three speeds The rated speed of adapter 1 in the bus The rated speed of adapter 2 in the bus The rated speed of the bus 32 bit adapters can be installed in any of the slots and will run in 32 bit mode 32 bi...

Page 67: ...for data Two lengths are available 3 5 m Remote I O cable kit part number 31P6102 like the one shipped with the RXE 100 8 m Remote I O cable kit part number 31P6103 Interconnect management cable for remote I O management This is a standard Ethernet cable The RXE 100 ships with a 3 5 m cable Two lengths are available 3 5 m interconnect management cable kit part number 31P6087 8 m interconnect manag...

Page 68: ...ecting the RXE 100 to the x450 12 slots in the RXE 100 RXE 100 RXE Management A in Port connector RXE Expansion Port A connector RXE Management Port connector xSeries 450 RXE Expansion Port connector RXE 100 A in Port RXE Management connector A out Port RXE Management connector in Port RXE Management B connector RXE Expansion Port A connector RXE Expansion Port B connector RXE Management Port conn...

Page 69: ...ermination on the system Once the operating system loads it is made available to the operating system as a standard and dedicated COM port To use the serial port for use as an auxiliary console you will need the following A null modem cable A system running a terminal emulation program such as HyperTerminal in Windows or minicom in Linux First connect the RS 232 cable between the two systems The c...

Page 70: ...ents Some of the supported IBM storage options are SCSI RAID adapters and storage enclosures Fibre Channel adapters and Storage Area Networks SANs Network Attached Storage NAS SCSI over IP iSCSI IBM Enterprise Storage Server ESS ESCON connectivity to a zSeries server 3 3 1 xSeries storage solutions This section discusses some of the available xSeries storage solutions and related technologies as w...

Page 71: ...oughput per channel for an aggregate of up to 56 drives for example Multiple adapters can be installed as needs and available slots dictate The EXP300 storage expansion unit has a maximum 1 TB of disk storage 14 146 8 GB drives in a 3U package allowing up to 14 expansion units to be used in a standard 42U rack meaning that a full rack of EXP300 units can hold an amazing 14 TB The EXP300 provides P...

Page 72: ...ment of the FC storage market A typical use of the FAStT200 would be in a two node cluster environment with up to 66 Fibre Channel disk drives attached to the Storage Server Two models are available The FAStT200 Storage Server with a single RAID controller The FAStT200 High Availability HA Storage Server which contains two RAID controllers and can therefore provide higher availability Both models ...

Page 73: ...here multiple servers are being consolidated onto one or more x450 systems and there is a requirement to centralize storage for these systems The FAStT500 Storage Server features two RAID controller units redundant power supplies and fans All these components are hot swappable which ensures excellent system availability You use the EXP500 external storage expansion enclosures to install the FC dis...

Page 74: ...for up to 64 storage partitions RAID levels 0 1 3 5 and 10 are supported and for performance it includes a total of 2 GB battery backed cache 1 GB per controller Additional information on the entire range of FAStT storage solutions can be found at http www storage ibm com hardsoft disk fastt index html Enterprise Storage Server ESS ESS provides integrated caching and RAID support for the attached ...

Page 75: ...and distributed tape technologies such as DDS and DLT and consolidate those into a single high performance automated solution An example is the IBM Ultrium Autoloader Current and projected capacity requirements Select a solution that has the ability to scale as capacity requirements increase Performance requirements You need to consider the backup window available as well as the amount of data bei...

Page 76: ...rack optimized it may be converted into a tower by installing it in a NetBAY11 SR Standard Rack Cabinet The NetBAY11 rack supports shipment of fully configured xSeries 450 and other rack optimized xSeries servers Installation considerations include the following The system is not designed to run vertically and therefore must always be run in a horizontal position For thermal considerations the x45...

Page 77: ...cts and Services e Click Intel based servers f Click Tools g Scroll down to find the Rack Configurator section 3 5 Power considerations The x450 ships with two redundant hot swappable power supplies that produce 1050 W each at 220 V or 550 W each at 110 V When the x450 is populated with more than two processors memory and adapters the power supplies may not be redundant if they are connected to a ...

Page 78: ...rted by a team of technical experts If a solution contains four or more Enterprise X Architecture servers currently x360 x440 and x450 then an expert SAR is mandatory For further information on what is required refer to the Solution Assurance Web sites EMEA and Americas information is available Procedures for Asia Pacific countries are currently in development Trigger Tool The SAR Trigger Tool pro...

Page 79: ...ance Review There is also an eSAR tool available to help you establish whether you require an expert review This is available from For IBM employees http w3 ibm com support assure then click eSAR For Business Partners http www ibm com support assure esar ...

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Page 81: ...ting system installation procedures that are specific to the x450 The following topics are discussed 4 1 Using the Extensible Firmware Interface on page 68 4 2 Installing Windows Server 2003 on page 86 4 3 Installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on page 98 Prior to commencing installation you need to download the latest firmware and drivers These are all available from the x450 driver matrix at ht...

Page 82: ... page 83 Configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter Boot from Remote Supervisor Adapter CD ROM or diskette and run the configuration utility Run the Remote Supervisor utility from the EFI shell See Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware update on page 82 Run system diagnostics Press F2 during server boot and enter the Diagnostic utility Run the Diagnostic utility from the EFI Boot Manager menu See 4 1 4 ...

Page 83: ...two Broadcom network controllers If you choose any of these options the system will try to boot from the selected device If it fails for example when trying to boot from CD ROM without bootable media inserted the following message appears Loading Acpi PNP0A03 0 Pci 5 1 Ata Primary Master Load of Acpi PNP0A03 0 Pci 5 1 Ata Primary Master failed Not Found Paused press any key to continue Choosing an...

Page 84: ...ng table is displayed as shown in Figure 4 2 Figure 4 2 Entering EFI shell This mapping table lists both block devices blk and file systems fs All fixed disks CD ROM drives and USB storage devices will appear as block devices If the server contains additional controllers and disks they will appear as additional block devices The EFI automatically maps known file systems on the block devices to the...

Page 85: ...tition is easily identifiable in Figure 4 2 on page 70 if we realize that EFI is always the first partition on the disk that is it is identified by HD Part1 in the string In this case it is fs3 In Figure 4 2 on page 70 the CD ROM is represented as fs2 The USB memory devices include the string USB File operations in the EFI shell From the EFI shell you may access FAT FAT32 file systems on existing ...

Page 86: ... in the FSx section In our example the entry is highlighted in Figure 4 3 The entry will include the string USB If the USB device is attached to a USB hub for example a memory key plugged into the USB port of a USB keyboard then two USB strings will appear in the entry as shown in Figure 4 4 on page 73 Tip Adding or removing media may cause arbitrary reassignments of the FSx designations Always ma...

Page 87: ...tted CD ROMs which is typically the default are not readable from within the EFI When burning a CD ROM that is to be readable from within EFI shell specify the following settings File system ISO9660 or El Torito Physical format Mode 2 CD ROM XA In Easy CD Creator do this by clicking File CD Properties change the file system to ISO9660 and ensure the physical format of the CD is set to Mode 2 CD RO...

Page 88: ... of a single logical drive spanning the two disks There is no way to create multiple logical volumes at the controller level The advantage of the embedded LSI controller is that the content of the primary disk the disk marked as Primary in the Mirroring Properties menu stays intact and is copied to the secondary disk during the first synchronization This feature means that the installation of the ...

Page 89: ...d 41 dh d 50 The output for driver handle 50 shows the LSI driver Shell dh d 50 50 Image PciRom Seg 00000000 Bus 01 Dev 03 Func 00 Image 0000 DriverBinding ComponentName Configuration Diagnostics Driver Name LSI Logic Ultra320 SCSI Driver Image Name PciRom Seg 00000000 Bus 01 Dev 03 Func 00 Image 0000 Driver Version 01010200 Driver Type DEVICE Configuration YES Diagnostics YES Managing Ctrl 52 LSI...

Page 90: ...pter Properties menu appears 5 Select Mirroring Properties A window similar to Figure 4 5 on page 77 appears Tip The LSI driver handle number may change after each reboot Each time you configure the LSI controller perform these steps starting at step 1 Low level format If you wish to perform a low level format on the drives before you create a mirrored pair do the following 1 From the Adapter Prop...

Page 91: ...8 The following message appears Warning Data on Secondary or Hot Spare Mirroring will overwrite Confirm by pressing Enter and continue 9 Save the changes on the next window and exit the menu The disks will synchronize in the background Tip The option to mark the disk as hot spare is of no use on the x450 Because of the physical limitation of the server internal maximum of two disks it is not possi...

Page 92: ...soft Reserved Partition on page 88 To delete the content of the disk perform the following steps 1 Download the DISKPART EFI drive partitioning utility Transfer it to the x450 using a device such as a USB memory key or CD R This is available from http developer intel com technology efi diskutil_overview htm Note The initial mirror synchronization can take up to several hours The process itself run...

Page 93: ...rm the action as prompted exit Exit the console and return to the EFI shell The overall process is shown in Figure 4 6 Figure 4 6 Diskpart commands to erase a disk The described procedure can be used to delete both the MBR and GPT disks DiskPart Version 1 0 Based on EFI core release Version 1 2 1 0 DiskPart list BlkSize BlkCount 0 200 10BC001 DiskPart select 0 Selected Disk 0 DiskPart clean About ...

Page 94: ...in the EFI version The diskette version searches for the update files on the diskette whereas the flash program on x450 reads the root directories of all accessible file systems until it finds firmware update files The implication is that once the utility successfully locates a flash update file it will stop searching We should realize this behavior when we have for example the latest firmware upd...

Page 95: ...tem CD R W and MemMap mappings are not considered writable devices in EFI In our system as shown in Figure 4 2 on page 70 the backup file would be saved on fs3 Do not try to specify full path to the file name because the utility does not accept full path syntax 5 At this point the Flash Update utility should detect the presence of the update files on the disk and you will be asked to choose which ...

Page 96: ...les must reside in the same directory To apply Service Processor updates follow these steps 1 Enter the EFI shell from the Boot Manager menu 2 Navigate to the folder that contains FLASH2 EFI and the update files 3 Run the program from the prompt by typing flash2 and pressing Enter The IBM Remote Supervisor utility will display 4 Select Update System Management Firmware from the main menu and press...

Page 97: ...parameters Figure 4 7 Configuration and Set Up utility Enabling memory mirroring Memory mirroring part of IBM s Active Memory technology provides an additional level of fault tolerance to the memory subsystem For detailed information and guidelines on memory mirroring see 1 7 System memory on page 17 To enable memory mirroring on the x450 perform the following steps 1 Allow the system to boot to t...

Page 98: ...he system changes and rebooting again To ensure your memory configuration is correct enter Configuration and Set Up utility and verify that the settings in the Memory Configuration option match you configuration 4 1 4 Diagnostic utility The ROM based diagnostics package may be started from the EFI Boot Manager by selecting the Diagnostic Utility Alternatively you can start it using the command ami...

Page 99: ...om similar to the boot sequence option in Setup in IA 32 based xSeries systems Note Multiprocessor tests were not available in the Diagnostic utility at the time of writing this book They should be made available by a diagnostics update The processor test only tests the bootstrap processor and does not verify the whole processor system in a multi processor setup You can use the Processor Tests opt...

Page 100: ...ift R when prompted to restore the EFI defaults Similarly operating system boot entries may also be hard to recreate For Windows specific information about the Windows boot menu record see Exporting and importing the operating system EFI boot record on page 96 EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1 10 14 60 Main Menu Select an Operation Boot from a File Add a Boot Option Delete Boot Option s Change Bo...

Page 101: ...iskpart command as described in Deleting the disk content on page 78 3 Ensure the system has the latest of the following installed System firmware System diagnostics Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware Download these from http www pc ibm com support 4 Shut down the system and disconnect the RXE 100 Reconnect it after the installation is complete 5 With the Windows Server 2003 CD ROM in the drive bo...

Page 102: ...partition is automatically created Every GPT disk used by Windows must contain an MSR partition The order of partitions on the disk should be ESP if the disk is a boot disk MSR partition followed by primary data partition s It is particularly important that the MSR partition is created before other primary data partitions The order of partitions on the Windows boot disk is shown in Figure 4 10 Fig...

Page 103: ...sks adapters and memory modules Before commencing the installation ensure that firmware levels have been updated to the latest levels Refer to 4 1 2 Flash update on page 80 Refer to Installing additional drivers on page 93 for information on device drivers required for the installation of Windows Server 2003 Disconnect the RXE 100 if you have one Once the installation is complete you may reconnect...

Page 104: ...nstallation CD automatically From the Boot Manager menu select the CD ROM in the list as shown in Figure 4 11 and press Enter Figure 4 11 Boot Manager menu selecting the CD ROM For three seconds there will be a message on the screen Press any key to boot from CD ROM If you do not press any key the installation will not start and you will return to EFI Tip If the disk you install to is still an MBR...

Page 105: ... begun If you install the operating system on a GPT disk without the EFI System Partition that is a first time installation you will be asked to create one as shown in Figure 4 12 Figure 4 12 ESP creation during Windows installation Tip When you see the Setup is starting Windows message on the video display the auxiliary console a terminal session via the serial port will stop functioning This is ...

Page 106: ...partitions and press S to change to a GUID Partition Table GPT partitioning structure The OS loader and the boot partition must reside on a GPT disk Tip At this point in addition to the EFI System Partition Setup also creates the Microsoft Reserved Partition see 4 2 2 Microsoft Reserved Partition on page 88 Windows NET Server 2003 Enterprise Edition The following list shows the existing partitions...

Page 107: ...se Once Windows has been installed you should perform the following steps Installing additional drivers Specific device drivers are available for the x450 that are not included with the base operating system Drivers that you should obtain separately from the operating system include Broadcom Ethernet controller Remote Supervisor Adapter service processor Active PCI X controller Tip Once created th...

Page 108: ...03 installation has completed you should perform install drivers for each of the unknown devices For each one right click the entry in Device Manager and click Update Driver Select the options that let you Important Drivers that were developed for any 32 bit versions of Windows will not work in 64 bit version of Windows You must use 64 bit drivers Note Some device drivers released for use with Win...

Page 109: ...s the installed ServeRAID firmware and BIOS The ServeRAID driver that is included in Windows Server 2003 is Version 4 70 Figure 4 15 shows Device Manager after the Active PCI RSA and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet drivers have been installed Figure 4 15 Device Manager after device driver updates Attaching the RXE 100 Once Windows Server 2003 is installed you can attach the RXE 100 Follow these steps 1 ...

Page 110: ...tem EFI boot record During the installation process the Setup program adds a new entry to the EFI Boot Manager menu It will be added to the top of the menu so that if no keys are pressed once the EFI Boot Manager menu appears Windows will automatically start The default delay is 30 seconds and may be changed using the Set Auto Boot Timeout option in the Boot option maintenance menu The EFI Boot Ma...

Page 111: ...manually restored To export an EFI boot menu record perform the following steps 1 Invoke the EFI shell from the Boot Manager menu Change to fsx where x is the system partition see 4 1 1 The EFI shell on page 70 2 Change the directory to MSUTIL cd msutil 3 Run the NVRBOOT EFI utility See Example 4 1 4 Enter X for Export from the OS Boot Options Maintenance Tool menu 5 Enter the number of Windows bo...

Page 112: ...he boot menu record use the Import command from the NVRBOOT utility To illustrate the export import process here s an example If you were to take a set of disks from one x450 to another you would do the following 1 Export the Windows boot entry from the first server and save it on the EFI System Partition which is a partition on the disk 2 Insert the disks into the second server 3 Import the file ...

Page 113: ...eve the best results The main tasks were Port the kernel itself Initial port of GNU Compiler Collection GCC to IA 64 architecture Port of GAS emacs ld GNUPro toolkit Port of performance measurement and analysis tools Intel provided the IA 32 and IA 64 platform specifications and the EFI and helped on the Apache port The rest of the work was distributed among the companies involved and also by priv...

Page 114: ...ot an installable package Data types In 1996 The Open Group decided to extend the Single UNIX Specification for 64 bit Systems to create a new standard on 64 bit for any UNIX operating system Linux kernel developers attempt to follow the Open Group standards as much as possible so the Linux IA 64 kernel uses the LP64 Data Model as defined by The Open Group This data model is LP64 because it allows...

Page 115: ... when we talk about Linux we aren t talking about one company one version or one distributor Linux is the kernel the base of the system and there are many companies that develop Linux distributions built around the kernel In this section we discuss the major Linux distributors that work with IBM and their different products available for Itanium 2 platform Red Hat and UnitedLinux Note The IBM Linu...

Page 116: ...site is UnitedLinux is a standards based worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user and developed by Conectiva The SCO Group SuSE and Turbolinux Designed to be an enterprise class industry standard Linux operating system UL provides a single stable uniform platform for application development certification and deployment and allows Linux vendors Independent Software Vendors ISVs and In...

Page 117: ...linux also has a product for Itanium processors Turbolinux 7 0 for Itanium but it is not their latest version which is 8 0 To find out about Turbolinux products on Linux for 64 bit platforms or IBM support for SCO products go to http www turbolinux com products tls7i http www pc ibm com us compat nos turbolinux html SuSE SLES 8 for IA 64 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 was the only commercial Linux...

Page 118: ...zed by the kernel during installation and the installation process may hang Once the system is installed you can reconnect it and all your PCI devices will be recognized automatically Disconnect the LS 120 if you have one installed Do not start the installation procedure with an LS 120 drive unit in the spare media bay in the front of the x450 We encountered problems trying to install the preview ...

Page 119: ...CD ROM inserted before the EFI Boot Manager menu loaded do the following 1 Insert SuSE Disk 1 into the drive 2 Select EFI Shell and press Enter 3 Enter the command map r to remap all file systems 4 Enter exit to go back to the Boot Manager menu 5 Select Boot option maintenance menu and press Enter 6 Select Boot from a file and press Enter 7 Select the CD ROM entry Ata Primary Master CD 8 Browse to...

Page 120: ...t copies the files from the installation CDs and installs the packages 6 Prepare for the initial boot that is the part of the installation that runs the configuration scripts and installs the boot manager Once all your packages are copied to the hard disk reboot the server Once the system rebooted on the EFI menu select SuSE SLES to start the Linux boot process This entry will also be configured t...

Page 121: ...nd our system is configured to boot on initlevel 5 by default etc If you do not press any key before the delay estimated on the elilo conf file Linux will start loading automatically To reduce the delay or remove it completely change or remove the corresponding line in elilo conf Example 4 2 shows a typical elilo conf configuration file As you can see the elilo configuration is very similar to the...

Page 122: ...ile any application from code source to IA 32 platform it is still possible and you may also compile it to IA 64 This will offer you the possibility to still use older IA 32 applications if you don t have the source code or you don t want to recompile it to IA 64 4 3 6 Information about the installed system Our recently installed Linux system can offer us some information about the x450 such as CP...

Page 123: ...x cat proc meminfo total used free shared buffers cached Mem 3112976384 1308147712 1804828672 0 76251136 518733824 Swap 1044496384 0 1044496384 Total of HugePages 32 Available 32 HugePageSize 16777216 0x4000KB HugePageRegionNumber 4 MemTotal 3040016 kB MemFree 1762528 kB MemShared 0 kB Buffers 74464 kB Cached 506576 kB SwapCached 0 kB Active 356800 kB Inactive 263072 kB HighTotal 0 kB HighFree 0 k...

Page 124: ...lp parport_pc videodev 16024 0 autoclean iptable_mangle 4064 0 autoclean unused iptable_nat 36320 0 autoclean unused ip_conntrack 38816 1 autoclean iptable_nat iptable_filter 3272 0 autoclean unused ip_tables 29800 5 iptable_mangle iptable_nat iptable_filter af_packet 34952 1 autoclean bcm5700 175160 1 isa pnp 83896 0 unused ipv6 375120 1 autoclean keybdev 4416 0 unused hid 44024 0 unused mousedev...

Page 125: ... 4 6 fdisk output of two EFI partitions Disk dev sda 255 heads 63 sectors 1106 cylinders Units cylinders of 16065 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev sda1 1 1107 8887079 ee EFI GPT Disk dev sdb 255 heads 63 sectors 1106 cylinders Units cylinders of 16065 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev sdb1 1 1107 8887079 ee EFI GPT The two disks included more than one partiti...

Page 126: ...nsole messages to the serial port This can be done by entering the following command at the elilo prompt or adding it to the elilo conf file append console ttyS0 115200 You can also redirect not only kernel messages but any other system message from the default messages console which is virtual terminal number 10 on SuSE Linux and var log messages on other Linux distributions to the serial port To...

Page 127: ...ng SuSE SLES 8 it is recommended that you disconnect the RXE 100 before the operating system installation and then reconnect it again once the system is installed The installation program uses a limited version of the kernel that may not recognize your devices on the RXE enclosure or may crash the installation Active PCI support Hot Plug is not supported on Linux As you can see in Figure 4 17 on p...

Page 128: ... information File Edit View Terminal Go Help YaST linux ui ncurses 2 6 24 Hardware info IBM Host bridge Close Has PCMCIA No Has SMP No Keyboard Memory Network card Network interface PCI IBM Host bridge Rage XL IBM Bridge VT82C686 Apollo Super South VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE USB VT82C686 Apollo Super ACPI IBM Host bridge 53c1030 53c1030 IBM Ethernet controller ServeRAID 4M IBM Host bridge USB I...

Page 129: ...most all the ATI graphics controllers ATI controllers are supported on both major versions of XFree86 the 3 3 6 and the 4 2 1 To follow the status of any supported ATI graphic device contsupport by the XFree86 project see http www xfree86 org current Status6 html 6 For generic information about the status of any driver see http www xfree86 org current Status html ATI has also a support page for Li...

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Page 131: ...that can be used to manage the x450 The topics covered are Configuring the integrated Remote Supervisor Adapter Out of band management with IBM Director Managing the x450 using the Remote Supervisor Adapter 5 Important At the time of writing a 64 bit version of IBM Director Agent was not available for either Windows or Linux Consequently this chapter concentrates on out of band alerting and manage...

Page 132: ...igurable notification and alerts Event logs that are time stamped saved in nonvolatile memory and can be attached to e mail alerts Remote graphical console redirection Remote access either via Ethernet serial or Advanced System Management ASM interconnect connectivity Point to point protocol PPP support Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP support Domain Name System DNS and Dynamic Host Configu...

Page 133: ...rs The adapter supports three user interfaces for out of band management Web browser Telnet ANSI terminal The recommended and usually the easiest ways to perform out of band management are Using a Web browser to connect to the adapter via its Ethernet port Connecting to the adapter from a Remote Supervisor Adapter installed in another server using the RS 485 ASM interconnect port 5 1 2 Connecting ...

Page 134: ...1 DHCP HstNme 450rsa DN itso ral ibm com IP 9 24 104 109 GW 9 24 104 1 NMsk 255 255 254 0 DNS1 9 24 106 15 DNS2 9 37 0 5 6 From this information you can connect to the adapter via a Web browser In our example the URL would be http 450rsa itso ral ibm com 7 When prompted enter a valid user ID and password By default only one user ID is configured User ID USERID all caps Password PASSW0RD all caps a...

Page 135: ...ss for your Remote Supervisor Adapter This will ensure the adapter is still accessible from the network even when the DNS and DHCP servers are unavailable This is described in the next section 5 1 3 Configuring a static IP address If you do not have a DHCP server on the network you will need to configure the adapter to use a static IP address The easiest way is to connect to the x450 s adapter usi...

Page 136: ...System Partition from Windows on page 96 For Linux see Partitions on IA 64 Linux on page 111 Only the FLASH2 EFI file is needed to configure the adapter To configure a static IP address using FLASH2 perform the following steps 1 Boot the x450 into the EFI shell 2 Place the flash2 application on media that can be read by the x450 This could be a CD memory key or the application can be copied to a p...

Page 137: ... Supervisor Adapter User s Guide 9 Change the DHCP Setting field to Disabled The default value is Enabled 10 Press F6 to apply the changes 11 Press Esc After the Warning window opens press Enter to restart the Remote Supervisor Adapter 12 Exit the utility and return to the EFI Boot Manager menu You should now be able to connect to the adapter using the static IP address you supplied Tip For inform...

Page 138: ...r SG24 6188 Once you have connected the x450 Remote Supervisor Adapter to other service processors including another Remote Supervisor Adapter do the following 1 From your Web browser connect to the other Remote Supervisor Adapter for example one in an x440 2 Select Access Remote ASM from the main menu Figure 5 2 on page 121 3 A list of the other service processors connected on the ASM interconnec...

Page 139: ... device driver is on the Resource CD ROM that is shipped with the server The latest version of the driver is also available from http www pc ibm com support Installation procedures are documented in the following sections Windows Installing additional drivers on page 93 Linux 4 3 9 Upgrading drivers on page 114 5 1 6 Configuring the remote control password If you want to use the remote control fea...

Page 140: ...ding alerts to IBM Director Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP as described in 5 2 2 Configuring SNMP on page 127 Communication directly with IBM Director either via Ethernet or via modem as described in 5 2 3 Sending alerts directly to IBM Director on page 128 5 2 1 Configuring which alerts to monitor Before configuring the method of sending the alert to IBM Director you should first define ...

Page 141: ...already done so configure the adapter so that it can be accessed from a Web browser either through a direct Ethernet connection or via an ASM interconnect See 5 1 2 Connecting via a Web browser on page 119 or 5 1 4 Connecting via the ASM interconnect on page 124 2 Connect to the adapter using the Web browser From the home page click Network Protocols 3 In the SNMP section see Figure 5 5 on page 12...

Page 142: ...r Adapter in the x450 as an SNMP device By default the name listed in IBM Director is Remote Supervisor Adapter IP address where IP Address is the address of the Remote Supervisor Adapter you configured You can choose to make this name more descriptive for your environment by right clicking and choosing Rename 7 Proceed to 5 2 4 Creating a test event action plan in IBM Director on page 130 for ins...

Page 143: ...s list is empty Click on an empty link labeled not used to configure a remote recipient 4 To configure IBM Director as a remote recipient you will need to enter the following values All fields not listed can be left in their default blank state Status Enabled default is Disabled Name Enter a descriptive name Notification Method IBM Director over LAN or IBM Director over modem Number IP Address of ...

Page 144: ... Builder icon located in the IBM Director Console 3 The Event Action Plan Builder window will appear Right click Event Action Plan in the left hand pane and select New to create a new plan 4 Provide a descriptive name for your plan and click OK For our testing we entered RSA Test Figure 5 6 New event action plan 5 Once you click OK your new event action plan will appear in the left hand pane under...

Page 145: ...omize action configuration window 9 Click the Save icon in the upper left hand corner of the window looks like a diskette to save the changes 10 Your new customized action should appear in the right hand pane Click and hold the action and drag the icon to the filter you created 11 Close the Event Action Plan Builder 12 If you chose to configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter using Alert Forwarding ...

Page 146: ...ation 14 In the IBM Director Console click and drag your completed test configuration to the Remote Supervisor Adapter for the x450 located in the middle pane 15 In either case a pop up window will appear notifying you that the event action plan has been added Figure 5 9 on page 133 ...

Page 147: ...mend removing one of the fans from the top of the x450 Within approximately 10 seconds an alert should appear on the Director Console similar to the one in Figure 5 10 Figure 5 10 Message alert Once functionality has been confirmed you can now build event action plans to suit your environment ...

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Page 149: ...96 Referenced Web sites These Web sites are also relevant as further information sources http www pc ibm com us compat nos matrix shtml http www intel com design itanium2 http developer intel com technology efi download htm http www intel com technology efi index htm http www microsoft com hwdev platform firmware EFI default asp http www intel com products server processors server itanium2 index h...

Page 150: ...bm com qtechinfo MIGR 4JTS2T html http developer intel com technology efi diskutil_overview htm http www microsoft com technet prodtechnol winxppro reskit prkb_cnc_ helm asp http www kernel org http www dig64 org http www linuxbase org spec refspecs elf gabi4 contents html http www opengroup org http www pc ibm com qtechinfo MIGR 48NT8D html http www redhat com software itanium http www pc ibm com...

Page 151: ...l as view download or search for Redbooks at the following Web site ibm com redbooks You can also download additional materials code samples or diskette CD ROM images from that site IBM Redbooks collections Redbooks are also available on CD ROMs Click the CD ROMs button on the Redbooks Web site for information about all the CD ROMs offered as well as updates and formats ...

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Page 153: ...17 mirroring 19 Active PCI driver Windows 2000 94 adapter speeds 45 adapter teaming 47 B BIOS 6 boot maintenance menu 85 bootstrap processor 16 Broadcom 22 47 adapter teaming 47 Broadcom driver Windows 2000 94 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller 22 C cabling Ethernet 22 47 RXE 100 53 cache 11 17 Chipkill memory 20 cyclone chip 3 D DDR memory 17 diagnostics 84 DIMM sockets 14 DIMMs 17 installation...

Page 154: ... 2 memory 17 Active Memory 17 Chipkill memory 20 disabling during POST 20 memory mirroring 19 Memory ProteXion 18 memory scrubbing 18 standard DIMMs 2 memory mirroring 42 83 memory board assembly 14 41 Microsoft Reserved Partition 88 models 2 mountvol command 96 N NetBurst architecture 4 NetXtreme 47 O operating systems 27 OS loader 6 P parallel ports 23 PCI bridges 5 PCI scan order 46 PCI slots 2...

Page 155: ...e 13 LEDs 15 16 standard memory 2 Summit chipset 3 support operating systems 27 SuSE Linux installing 98 support 27 T teaming 47 tornado chip 3 TotalStorage solutions 58 U Ultra 160 SCSI ports 22 UnitedLinux 102 USB ports 23 V video controller 22 video PCI adapters 46 W Windows Server 2003 Device Manager 94 installing 86 RXE 100 95 support 27 winnipeg chip 3 X XA 64 chipset 3 X Architecture 1 XceL...

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Page 160: ...stallation The IBM xSeries 450 is IBM s new 64 bit Itanium Processor Family IPF Architecture server and is the first implementation of the 64 bit IBM XA 64 chipset as part of the Enterprise X Architecture strategy This IBM Redbook is a comprehensive resource on the technical aspects of the server and is divided into five key subject areas Chapter 1 Technical description introduces the server and i...