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NC NEMA NLB NS NUMA OLAP OS PAE PCI PFA PME POST PPAR PSM RAID RAM RETAIN RISC ROM RPM RSA SAN SAR SCM SCSI SDRAM SMB SMP SNMP SPM SQL SR North Carolina National Electrical Manufacturers Association Network Load Balancing not set non-uniform memory access online analytical processing operating system physical address extension peripheral component interconnect Predictive Failure Analysis power management events power-on self test physical partitioning platform support module redundant array of independent disks random access memory remote technical assistance information network reduced instruction set computing read only memory revolutions per minute Red Hat Package Manager Remote Supervisor Adapter storage area network Solution Assurance Review supply chain management small computer system interface static dynamic random access memory small-to-medium-sized businesses symmetric multiprocessing Simple Network Management Protocol System Partition Manager structured query language standard rack SRPM SUS SVGA TB TCO TCP/IP TPC-C UPS URL USA USB VM VPN VRM WW ZIF Source Red Hat Package Manager Software Update Subscription super video graphics array terabyte total cost of ownership Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Transaction Processing Council-C uninterruptable power supply universal resource locator United States of America universal serial bus virtual machine virtual private network voltage regulator module worldwide zero insertion force 174 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide

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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xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide

North Carolina

NEMA

National Electrical Manufacturers

Association

NLB

Network Load Balancing

not set

NUMA

non-uniform memory access

OLAP

online analytical processing

operating system

PAE

physical address extension

PCI

peripheral component interconnect

PFA

Predictive Failure Analysis

PME

power management events

POST

power-on self test

PPAR

physical partitioning

PSM

platform support module

RAID

redundant array of independent disks

RAM

random access memory

RETAIN

remote technical assistance

information network

RISC

reduced instruction set computing

ROM

read only memory

RPM

revolutions per minute

Red Hat Package Manager

RSA

Remote Supervisor Adapter

SAN

storage area network

SAR

Solution Assurance Review

SCM

supply chain management

SCSI

small computer system interface

SDRAM

static dynamic random access

memory

SMB

small-to-medium-sized businesses

SMP

symmetric multiprocessing

SNMP

Simple Network Management

Protocol

SPM

System Partition Manager

SQL

structured query language

standard rack

SRPM

Source Red Hat Package Manager

SUS

Software Update Subscription

SVGA

super video graphics array

terabyte

TCO

total cost of ownership

TCP/IP

Transmission Control

Protocol/Internet Protocol

TPC-C

Transaction Processing Council-C

UPS

uninterruptable power supply

URL

universal resource locator

USA

United States of America

USB

universal serial bus

virtual machine

VPN

virtual private network

VRM

voltage regulator module

worldwide

ZIF

zero insertion force