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Abbreviations and acronyms AC ACPI APIC ASM ASR ATS BASP BI BIOS CCA CD-ROM CEC CIM CPU CRM DDR DDS DIMM DLT DOS DP ECC EE EMEA ER ERP ESCON ESS FC FRU GA alternating current advanced control and power interface advanced programmable interrupt controller Advanced System Management Automatic Server Restart Advanced Technical Support Broadcom Advanced Server Program business intelligence basic input/output system Citrix Certified Administrator compact disk read only memory central electronic complex Common Information Model central processing unit customer relationship management double data rate Digital Data Storage dual inline memory module Digital Linear Tape disk operating system dual processor error checking and correcting Enterprise Edition Europe, Middle East, Africa enterprise rack enterprise resource planning enterprise systems connection Enterprise Storage Server Fibre Channel field replaceable unit general availability GB GBps Gbps HA HAL HBA HCL HTTP I/O IBM IBS ID IEC IIS IP ISP IT KB LAN LED LPAR LTO MAC MB MCNE MCSE MP MPA MSCS NAS NBI gigabyte gigabytes per second gigabits per second high availability Hardware Abstraction Layer host bus adapter hardware compatibility list Hypertext Transmission Protocol input/output International Business Machines Corporation International Business Systems identification International Engineering Consortium Internet Information Services Internet Protocol Internet service provider information technology kilobyte local area network light emitting diode logical partition Linear Tape Open media access control megabyte Master Certified Novell Engineer Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer multiprocessor Management Processor Assistant Microsoft Cluster Service Network Attached Storage NetWare Bus Interface © Copyright IBM Corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 173

Section	Page
Front cover	1
Contents	5
Notices	9
Trademarks	10
Preface	11
The team that wrote this redbook	11
Become a published author	14
Comments welcome	14
Chapter 1. Technical description	15
1.1 The x440 product line	16
1.2 System partitioning	20
1.3 IBM XA-32 chipset	21
1.4 Processors	26
1.4.1 Intel Xeon Processor MP	27
1.4.2 Intel Xeon Processor DP	30
1.5 SMP Expansion Module	31
1.6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache	33
1.7 System memory	33
1.8 PCI subsystem	37
1.9 Redundancy	38
1.10 Light Path Diagnostics	39
1.11 Remote Supervisor Adapter	41
1.12 Operating system support	42
1.13 IBM Director	44
Chapter 2. Positioning	49
2.1 xSeries 440 application solutions	50
2.1.1 Server consolidation	50
2.1.2 Enterprise applications	52
2.1.3 Infrastructure applications	54
2.1.4 Clustering	55
2.2 Why choose the x440	57
2.2.1 IBM XA-32 chipset	57
2.2.2 Intel Xeon MP and DP processors	58
2.2.3 XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache	60
2.2.4 High-performance memory subsystem	60
2.2.5 Active PCI-X	61
2.2.6 XpandOnDemand scalability	61
2.2.7 System Partition Manager	62
2.3 The benefits of system partitioning	63
2.4 Server consolidation	65
2.4.1 Types of server consolidation	65
2.4.2 Why consolidate servers	71
2.4.3 Benefits from server consolidation	71
Chapter 3. Planning	77
3.1 System hardware	78
3.1.1 Processors	78
3.1.2 Memory	79
3.1.3 PCI slot configuration	82
3.1.4 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller	86
3.2 Cabling and connectivity	88
3.2.1 SMP Expansion Module connectivity	88
3.2.2 Remote Supervisor Adapter connectivity	91
3.2.3 Remote Expansion Enclosure	92
3.2.4 Serial connections	97
3.3 Storage considerations	97
3.3.1 xSeries storage solutions	98
3.3.2 Disk subsystem performance	102
3.3.3 Tape backup	103
3.4 Server partitioning and consolidation	104
3.5 Operating system considerations	104
3.5.1 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	106
3.5.2 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition	109
3.5.3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	110
3.5.4 Microsoft Windows .NET Server	111
3.5.5 Novell NetWare	111
3.5.6 Red Hat/SuSE Linux	111
3.5.7 VMware ESX Server	112
3.6 Application considerations	114
3.6.1 Scalability and performance considerations	114
3.6.2 SMP and server types	115
3.7 Rack installation	116
3.8 Power considerations	117
3.9 Solution Assurance Review	118
Chapter 4. Installation	121
4.1 System BIOS settings	122
4.1.1 Updating BIOS and firmware	122
4.1.2 Enabling memory mirroring	122
4.1.3 Enabling Hyper-Threading	123
4.2 Device drivers	125
4.3 Operating system installation	125
4.3.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server	126
4.3.2 Red Hat Linux installation	133
4.3.3 NetWare installation	135
4.3.4 VMware ESX Server	142
4.4 Additional Information	142
Chapter 5. Management	143
5.1 Active PCI Manager	144
5.1.1 Using Active PCI Manager	146
5.1.2 Adding adapters to the system	150
5.1.3 Analyzing an existing configuration	158
5.2 System Partition Manager	164
5.3 Process Control	169
5.3.1 Process alias rules	170
5.3.2 Process execution rules	174
5.3.3 Group process execution rules	175
Abbreviations and acronyms	187
Related publications	189
IBM Redbooks	189
Referenced Web sites	189
How to get IBM Redbooks	192
IBM Redbooks collections	192
Index	193

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alternating current

ACPI

advanced control and power interface

APIC

advanced programmable interrupt

controller

ASM

Advanced System Management

ASR

Automatic Server Restart

ATS

Advanced Technical Support

BASP

Broadcom Advanced Server Program

business intelligence

BIOS

basic input/output system

CCA

Citrix Certified Administrator

CD-ROM

compact disk read only memory

CEC

central electronic complex

CIM

Common Information Model

CPU

central processing unit

CRM

customer relationship management

DDR

double data rate

DDS

Digital Data Storage

DIMM

dual inline memory module

DLT

Digital Linear Tape

DOS

disk operating system

dual processor

ECC

error checking and correcting

Enterprise Edition

EMEA

Europe, Middle East, Africa

enterprise rack

ERP

enterprise resource planning

ESCON

enterprise systems connection

ESS

Enterprise Storage Server

Fibre Channel

FRU

field replaceable unit

general availability

Abbreviations and acronyms

gigabyte

GBps

gigabytes per second

Gbps

gigabits per second

high availability

HAL

Hardware Abstraction Layer

HBA

host bus adapter

HCL

hardware compatibility list

HTTP

Hypertext Transmission Protocol

I/O

input/output

IBM

International Business Machines

Corporation

IBS

International Business Systems

identification

IEC

International Engineering Consortium

IIS

Internet Information Services

Internet Protocol

ISP

Internet service provider

information technology

kilobyte

LAN

local area network

LED

light emitting diode

LPAR

logical partition

LTO

Linear Tape Open

MAC

media access control

megabyte

MCNE

Master Certified Novell Engineer

MCSE

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

multiprocessor

MPA

Management Processor Assistant

MSCS

Microsoft Cluster Service

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NBI

NetWare Bus Interface