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Describes the technical details of the x440 models David Watts Reza Fanaei Aghdam Duncan Furniss Jason KingPage IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide First Edition October Contents Iv IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Additional Information Vi IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Vii Copyright License Trademarks IBM Preface Team that wrote this redbook IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Team l-r David, Duncan, Reza, Jason Become a published author Comments welcome Technical description X440 product line Models available from November XSeries RXE-100 One 16-way complex System partitioning IBM XA-32 chipset CEC Technical description CEC X440 Node CEC Processors Intel Xeon Processor MP Quad-pumped frontside bus IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Technical description Feature Xeon Processor DP Xeon Processor MP Intel Xeon Processor DP SMP Expansion Module 10 SMP Expansion Module IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache System memory 11 Memory ProteXion Port IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide PCI subsystem Redundancy Light Path Diagnostics 13 Front panel of the xSeries 14 Light Path Diagnostics panel on Remote Supervisor Adapter Rear Operating system support Description Release SMP support1 Hyper-Threading Support IBM Director Technical description IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Technical description IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Positioning XSeries 440 application solutions Server consolidation Positioning Enterprise applications Positioning Infrastructure applications Clustering One-box cluster running VMware with virtual shared storage Why choose IBM XA-32 chipset Intel Xeon MP and DP processors Performance with & without Hyper-Threading XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache High-performance memory subsystem Active PCI-X XpandOnDemand scalability System Partition Manager Benefits of system partitioning IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Server consolidation Types of server consolidation These are summarized in -1 and described in detail below Relocating existing servers to one or fewer IT sites Virtual centralization or remote managementPhysical centralization or server relocation Physical server consolidation Positioning IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Why consolidate servers Benefits from server consolidationSingle point of control Giving users better services Regaining flexibilityAvoid floor space constraints Reduction of the Total Cost of Ownership TCO Manageability and availability Service level Scalability and workload growthBusiness continuity Reduced technical complexity IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Planning System hardware Processors Memory DIMMs sockets on the x440 SMP Expansion Module Memory mirroring Memory performance considerations PCI slot configuration Additional memory considerations X440 block diagram showing the internal PCI-X slots Slot Bus Width bits Supported adapter speed MHz PCI-X slots Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller Active PCI Manager Adapter teaming Cabling and connectivity SMP Expansion Module connectivity SMP Expansion Ports with two SMP Expansion Modules installed Connecting the two x440s together in a 16-way configuration Remote Supervisor Adapter Connectors Remote Supervisor Adapter connectivity Remote Expansion Enclosure Bus Slot RXE-100 PCI-X expansion board 6 slots Connecting the RXE-100 Connecting the RXE-100 to 10 Connecting an RXE-100 to a 16-way x440 configuration Storage considerations Serial connections XSeries storage solutions ServeRAID with external storage enclosures IBM Fibre Array Storage Technology IBM TotalStorage FAStT200 Storage Server IBM TotalStorage FAStT500 Storage Server IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 Storage Server Disk subsystem performance Enterprise Storage Server ESS Tape backup Server partitioning and consolidation Operating system considerations Description Release SMP support1 Hyper-Threading Support Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Datacenter eight-way configuration Datacenter 16-way configuration Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Windows .NET Server Novell NetWareRed Hat/SuSE Linux VMware ESX Server Model Standard processors L2 cache L3 cache Std memory VMware ESX Server Application considerations Scalability and performance considerations SMP and server types Rack installation Power considerations Click Products and Services Click Intel-based serversClick Select a country Solution Assurance Review Trigger Tool ESAR Electronic Solution Assurance Review IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Installation 107 System Bios settings Updating Bios and firmwareEnabling memory mirroring Enabling Hyper-Threading Enabling memory mirroring Enabling Hyper-Threading Operating system installation Device drivers Installing the x440 Windows 2000 custom HAL Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server When you see the following message, immediately press F5 Installing the Windows 2000 Service Pack Selecting computer type from custom HAL disk Installing additional drivers Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 2 installation Device Manager post Windows 2000 Server installation Windows 2000 Device Manager after device driver updates Enabling Hyper-Threading on a Windows 2000 system Attaching the RXE-100 Remote Expansion Enclosure Before and after enabling Hyper-Threading on a two-way Red Hat Linux installation Right-clickACPI Multiprocessor Node and select Properties Mount /mnt/cdrom NetWare installation Hyper-Threading support under LinuxRXE-100 support under Linux IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 10 Network board installation instruction Installing the IBM PCI hot-plug controller driver 11 Shows the loaded Broadcom Gigabit driver 12 Verifies that PCI hot-plug installation was successful Adding support for the RXE-100 Before you begin Enabling Hyper-Threading Additional Information 129 Active PCI Manager Active PCI Manager revision Active PCI Manager task on IBM Director main console Using Active PCI Manager X440 slot view Slot 3 details Message Meaning Recommended Action X440 and RXE-100 tree view Adding adapters to the system X440 and RXE-100 table view Adding a known adapter Add Card Wizard Selecting the IBM Gigabit Ethernet SX Adapter Hot Add adapter to slot 11 Slot 3 with the LED on 12 IBM Gigabit Ethernet Adapter installed in slot Adding an unlisted adapter 13 Adapter identification screen Attributes Graphic Analyzing an existing configuration 15 Windows finds new hardware 16 Incorrectly arranged adapters 17Performance analysis Optimizer prompts you to remove the adapter from slot 19 Stop adapter use by the operating system Indicators that the hot-eject was successful System Partition Manager 22 Hot Add Partitioning options Diagram Partitioning options Diagram Tasks 24 Partition Assistant Process Control Process alias rules 25 Process Control rule types 27 Creating a process alias rule 28 Assigning a process alias 30 List of process alias rules Process execution rules 31 Identify the alias for process execution rule Group process execution rules 32 Creating a group process alias Properties window for the group appears Figure 35 Processor affinity 36 Process group priority 37 Configuring Task Manager to show base priority 39 Process scheduling class 40 Memory limits for processes in groups 41 Per process and group time limits Windows NT Event Log System ProcCon 43 Process Control advanced controls 44 Performance monitor counter 45 Process Control scan interval Abbreviations and acronyms 173 Nema IBM Redbooks Referenced Web sitesIBM sites 175 IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Intel sites Microsoft sitesNovell sites Red Hat sites How to get IBM Redbooks IBM Redbooks collections Numerics 179 ERP Index See also RXE-100 See also Linux IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Page Page IBM xSeries Planning and Installation Guide Helps you prepare for and perform an installation

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