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publications 128 Q quad-pump design 9 R rack configurator 103 rack installation 102 Rack Manager 31 RAID 84 RAID Manager 31 rear panel 11 Red Hat Linux 29, 91, 97 See also Linux Redbooks Web site 178 Contact us xii redundancy 24 power 103 Remote Expansion I/O port 10 Remote I/O cable 103 Remote Supervisor Adapter 16-way configurations 28 connectivity 77 driver NetWare 122 Windows 2000 116 features 27 firmware 108 RS-485 23 rules memory 66 memory mirroring 67 PCI slots 69 processors 64 RXE-100 79 RXE Expansion Port 10 RXE-100 78 cabling 80 Linux support 121 NetWare 126 slots 79 Windows 2000 Server installation 112 S S3 driver 117 SAP R/3 38-39 SAS 39 scalability ports 18 scan order, PCI 72 SCM 38 scrubbing, memory 20, 46 SCSI internal cabling 71 SCSI ports 23 SDRAM 9, 19 serial port, not in x440 83 serial ports 24 server consolidation 36, 49, 51-61 application integration 56 availability 59 benefits 57 business continuity 60 centralization 52 data integration 55 flexibility 58 logical consolidation 56 physical consolidation 53 rational consolidation 57 service level agreements 60 single point of control 58 TCO 58 types 51 why consolidate? 57 ServeRAID 84 driver NetWare 124 Windows 2000 114, 116 ServeRAID 4H support 71 shark 88 Siebel 39 single box clustering 41 SMP expansion cable 103 SMP Expansion Module 17, 65 16-way configuration 75 connectivity 75 LEDs 18 memory 65 part numbers 17 processors 65 SMP Expansion Ports 10, 18 software installation 107-128 Linux 119 NetWare 121 Windows 2000 112 software partitioning 6 Software Rejuvenation 32 Software Update Subscription 93 Index 183

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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