IBM B73.3 manual Netfinity

•One step array initialization and synchronization - reduces the time to prepare a new RAID 5 array to accept data

•10/100 Mbps Ethernet, and SVGA video controllers

•An SVGA controller with 1 MB of video memory

•Three serial ports (two 16550A compatible), one parallel port

•USB ports, a mouse port, and a keyboard port

The IBM Netfinity 5500 is shown in Figure 9.

Processor Shuttle,

System Board with Integrated Dual Channel Wide Ultra SCSI ServeRAIDII Controller, Integrated Advanced System Management Processor and 10/100 Ethernet Controller

2 PCI Slots (1/2 PCI Slot on 5500 M20)

4Hot-Plug PCI Slots with Indicator Lights

One ISA Slot

PFA Enabled, Redundant

(Optional) Hot-Pluggable

Power Supplies

System Board Protection Shield

Sliding Internal Shuttle for

Easy Maintenance

IBM Netfinity 5500 Family:

8U Rackable Server

Server Operations Display Panel

Power-on Button

1.44MB Diskette Drive

32X - 14X CD ROM for Automated Installation of Operating Systems with ServerGuide

2Open Half-High Bays for Optional 5.25" Drives (Supports Internal DLT)

Netfinity 5500

Netfinity 5500: Up to

2-way SMP Pentium III Processors with 512KB

Integrated Level 2 Cache and support for 1GB ECC SDRAM

Netfinity 5500 M10

Netfinity 5500 M10: Up to 2-way SMP Pentium II Xeon Processors with up to 1MB Level 2 Cache and support for up to 2GB ECC SDRAM

PFA-Enabled Redunant
Hot-Pluggable Cooling Fans
Light-path Diagnostic Panel	Netfinity 5500 M20
Room for up to 6 Slim-High	Netfinity 5500 M20: Up to
(3 Half-High) Internal
Hot-Pluggable Wide Ultra	4-way SMP Pentium III Xeon
SCSI Hard Disk Drives	Processors with up to 1MB
	Level 2 Cache and support
	for up to 4GB ECC SDRAM
IBM Netfinity EXP15 (Optional)
Storage Enclosure

IBM Netfinity NetBAY3: 3U stackable enclosure. Housing industry standard rack components like the IBM EXP15, ARC UPS, etc.

(One NetBay3 is Standard on the Tower Model)

Hard Disk Drives up to 36.4 GB for a Maximum Storage Capacity of 364GB

Figure 9. Exploded View of the IBM Netfinity 5500 and 5500 M20 Rack Server

Customers in medium-to-large-sized accounts should be informed that the Netfinity 5500 is not only a powerful SMP capable server with excellent scalability features, but also has all the other ingredients necessary to run business-critical applications and minimize down time. Fault tolerance and high-availability features of this server are designed to make adapter card, power supply, or hard disk drive failures transparent to clients on the LAN. In addition, there are predictive failure analysis features for the processor, VRM, memory, and HDDs, error-logging of events, and status LEDs provide a constant snapshot of the

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