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N Navision 38 NBI.NLM 122 NetBAY racks 102 NetBurst architecture 9 NetWare 29, 91, 97, 121-128 Active PCI driver 122, 124 Broadcom driver 122 Bus Interface driver 122 Hyper-Threading support 127 Remote Supervisor Adapter 122 RXE-100 support 126 NetXtreme 73 node 2 Novell NetWare See NetWare O OLAP 39 one Net (NetWare) 97 one-box clustering 41 online analytical processing 39 Onyx 39 operating systems 28, 90 device drivers 111 Linux 97, 119 NetWare 97, 121 VMware ESX Server 98, 128 Windows .NET 97 Windows 2000 96, 112 Windows NT 4.0 EE 95 Oracle 37-38, 40 P parallel ports 24 partial mirroring 67 partitioning 6 benefits 49 PCI bridges 10 PCI scan order 72 PCI slots 23 RXE-100 78 ServeRAID 4H 71 PCI-X 47 See also RXE-100 PCI-X and PCI coexistence 70 PCI-X slots in the x440 68 PeopleSoft 38-39 performance application scalability 100 disk subsystem 88 memory configuration 67 physical consolidation 51 physical partitioning 7 pipeline 16 planning 63-105 ports 65 positioning 35-61 power redundancy 103 power supplies 24-25 Prestonia 12, 64 ProcCon 168 Process Control 155-172 advanced options 170 affinity 163 alias rules 156 breakaway 171-172 check for new processes 171 CPU affinity 163 creating a rule 157 download 155 ending a task 168 event action plans 168 execute within a process group 161 execution rules 160-161 group process execution rules 161 group properties 162 image name 157 logging 168 memory limits 167 new processes 171 priority 164 process alias rules 156 process execution rules 160 process group 161 process ID 156 processor affinity 163 scheduling class 166 silent breakaway 171 Task Manager 157 time to run 168 unhandled exceptions 171 wildcard characters in image names 158 processor affinity 163 processors 12, 64 product line 2 product publications 128 182 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