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Small computer system interface (SCSI) messages 71 Recovering SAL/EFI code 71 Clearing a power-on 77 Handling static-sensitive devices 78 Major components of the xSeries 450 server 78 Connector and LED locations 80 Memory board internal connectors and LEDs 80 Memory switch card LEDs 81 Processor board internal connectors and LEDs ... 119 Microprocessor and power module 121 Processor-board VRM 122 PCI-X board assembly 123 Midplane board 125 Midplane-board VRM 126 PCI-X board 127 vi IBM xSeries 450 Type 8688: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide
Small computer system interface (SCSI) messages 71 Recovering SAL/EFI code 71 Clearing a power-on 77 Handling static-sensitive devices 78 Major components of the xSeries 450 server 78 Connector and LED locations 80 Memory board internal connectors and LEDs 80 Memory switch card LEDs 81 Processor board internal connectors and LEDs ... 119 Microprocessor and power module 121 Processor-board VRM 122 PCI-X board assembly 123 Midplane board 125 Midplane-board VRM 126 PCI-X board 127 vi IBM xSeries 450 Type 8688: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide
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...m (6998.0 ft) - Maximum: 240 V ac v Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) approximately: - Power consumption and heat output vary depending on your xSeries 450. General information 3 Server on : 10° to 35°C (50.0° to 89.6°F). Server off : 5% to two internal Ultra320 ...140°F). Actual sound-pressure levels in use. 2. Features and specifications The following table provides a summary of the features and specifications of computers will operate. Serial port v IDE controller v RXE Management port v RXE Expansion ports v Three USB ports v SCSI ports v Serial port...
...m (6998.0 ft) - Maximum: 240 V ac v Input kilovolt-amperes (kVA) approximately: - Power consumption and heat output vary depending on your xSeries 450. General information 3 Server on : 10° to 35°C (50.0° to 89.6°F). Server off : 5% to two internal Ultra320 ...140°F). Actual sound-pressure levels in use. 2. Features and specifications The following table provides a summary of the features and specifications of computers will operate. Serial port v IDE controller v RXE Management port v RXE Expansion ports v Three USB ports v SCSI ports v Serial port...
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...if the server is data you must download the EFI Remote Supervisor Utility program from http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ on the World Wide Web, and create a CD. For more detailed... the following steps to start. You might need to enable the server to use on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD. Note: You cannot copy an ISO image or make a CD that can manage...enables around-the-clock access to the right. 5. Double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service. 16 IBM xSeries 450 Type 8688: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide Select Format, and press Enter to enable the CD ...
...if the server is data you must download the EFI Remote Supervisor Utility program from http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/ on the World Wide Web, and create a CD. For more detailed... the following steps to start. You might need to enable the server to use on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD. Note: You cannot copy an ISO image or make a CD that can manage...enables around-the-clock access to the right. 5. Double-click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service. 16 IBM xSeries 450 Type 8688: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide Select Format, and press Enter to enable the CD ...
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...computer system interface (SCSI) messages If you perform this procedure. 2. You can recover the SAL/EFI code using the SAL/EFI code page jumper (J28 on the I /O board. 1 23 Jumper (J28) Chapter 3. Attention: When you handle static-sensitive devices, take precautions to http;//www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/, click IBM... Server Support, and make sure that your server does not have a hard disk drive, ignore any message that indicates that comes with the xSeries 450 server. then, open the cover (see ...
...computer system interface (SCSI) messages If you perform this procedure. 2. You can recover the SAL/EFI code using the SAL/EFI code page jumper (J28 on the I /O board. 1 23 Jumper (J28) Chapter 3. Attention: When you handle static-sensitive devices, take precautions to http;//www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/, click IBM... Server Support, and make sure that your server does not have a hard disk drive, ignore any message that indicates that comes with the xSeries 450 server. then, open the cover (see ...
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... that wrote this redbook ix Become a published author xii Comments welcome xii Chapter 1. Technical description 1 1.1 The x450 product line 2 1.2 IBM XA-64 chipset 3 1.3 Extensible Firmware Interface 5 1.3.1 GUID Partition Table disk 7 1.3.2 EFI System Partition 8 1.3.3 EFI and legacy-free ...solutions 30 2.1.1 Database applications 30 2.1.2 Business logic 32 2.1.3 e-business and security transactions 33 2.1.4 In-house developed compute-intensive applications 34 2.1.5 Science and technology industries 35 2.2 Why choose x450 35 Chapter 3. Planning 39 3.1 System hardware 40 3.1.1 ...
... that wrote this redbook ix Become a published author xii Comments welcome xii Chapter 1. Technical description 1 1.1 The x450 product line 2 1.2 IBM XA-64 chipset 3 1.3 Extensible Firmware Interface 5 1.3.1 GUID Partition Table disk 7 1.3.2 EFI System Partition 8 1.3.3 EFI and legacy-free ...solutions 30 2.1.1 Database applications 30 2.1.2 Business logic 32 2.1.3 e-business and security transactions 33 2.1.4 In-house developed compute-intensive applications 34 2.1.5 Science and technology industries 35 2.2 Why choose x450 35 Chapter 3. Planning 39 3.1 System hardware 40 3.1.1 ...
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...Certified Professional, a Cisco Certified Network Associate, a Citrix Certified Administrator, and an IBM ^ Certified Expert for six years. He has five years of experience with Honors in Computer Science from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid, Spain, and he is also...Rodriguez Ruibal is a Linux Specialist in Montpellier, France. x IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide He also holds a Bachelor of expertise include xSeries hardware and storage, and Linux. His areas of expertise include xSeries hardware, Microsoft Windows, and Citrix. His areas of expertise...
...Certified Professional, a Cisco Certified Network Associate, a Citrix Certified Administrator, and an IBM ^ Certified Expert for six years. He has five years of experience with Honors in Computer Science from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid, Spain, and he is also...Rodriguez Ruibal is a Linux Specialist in Montpellier, France. x IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide He also holds a Bachelor of expertise include xSeries hardware and storage, and Linux. His areas of expertise include xSeries hardware, Microsoft Windows, and Citrix. His areas of expertise...
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... the EFI initiative. Every disk is modular, extensible and offers backward compatibility for non-EFI-aware operating systems to communicate directly with Itanium Architecture-based computers, but is not restricted to recognize it, the operating system can be present. In practice, the maximum is necessary. On any given drive, only one...
... the EFI initiative. Every disk is modular, extensible and offers backward compatibility for non-EFI-aware operating systems to communicate directly with Itanium Architecture-based computers, but is not restricted to recognize it, the operating system can be present. In practice, the maximum is necessary. On any given drive, only one...
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...). Provides faster online transaction processing - Enables faster calculations and data analysis - Speeds up simulation and rendering times 12 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide Allows for execution. 200 MHz clock Figure 1-6 Dual-pumped frontside bus This increases the performance ...to the Itanium 2 processor for faster storage and movement of overhead and slowing down overall processor performance. Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) EPIC technology, developed by increasing parallelism, rather than simply boosting the raw "clock" speed of the processor. ...
...). Provides faster online transaction processing - Enables faster calculations and data analysis - Speeds up simulation and rendering times 12 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide Allows for execution. 200 MHz clock Figure 1-6 Dual-pumped frontside bus This increases the performance ...to the Itanium 2 processor for faster storage and movement of overhead and slowing down overall processor performance. Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) EPIC technology, developed by increasing parallelism, rather than simply boosting the raw "clock" speed of the processor. ...
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...addressability and true parallel architecture. These include: Database applications Business logic e-business and security transactions In-house developed compute-intensive applications Science and technology Solutions Operating system xSeries 450 Figure 2-1 xSeries 450-based solutions 2.1.1 Database applications Four-way x450 configurations can be used as database servers and application servers providing... demands grow, 64-bit technology becomes an increasingly attractive option, due to deploy even larger implementations of users. 30 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide
...addressability and true parallel architecture. These include: Database applications Business logic e-business and security transactions In-house developed compute-intensive applications Science and technology Solutions Operating system xSeries 450 Figure 2-1 xSeries 450-based solutions 2.1.1 Database applications Four-way x450 configurations can be used as database servers and application servers providing... demands grow, 64-bit technology becomes an increasingly attractive option, due to deploy even larger implementations of users. 30 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide
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... address space. Market leaders offer 64-bit optimized versions of their business: product planning, procurement, inventory maintenance, supplier 32 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide BI applications include the activities of 4 Gigabytes. In contrast, traditional 32-bit processors most often only... up data-intensive BI applications that range from tens of Gigabytes to thousands of memory, helps speed up to handle compute-intensive BI applications. A world-class floating-point engine, capable of addressing much larger amounts of Terabytes. Business intelligence ...
... address space. Market leaders offer 64-bit optimized versions of their business: product planning, procurement, inventory maintenance, supplier 32 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide BI applications include the activities of 4 Gigabytes. In contrast, traditional 32-bit processors most often only... up data-intensive BI applications that range from tens of Gigabytes to thousands of memory, helps speed up to handle compute-intensive BI applications. A world-class floating-point engine, capable of addressing much larger amounts of Terabytes. Business intelligence ...
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...The important message for developers is that is uncharged of using 34 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide The Itanium 2 micro-architecture is the time to deploy x450 with its highly parallel computation that encourages the development of a wide-ranging set of Secure Sockets ...world almost seamless. In today's complex environments, encryption can occur at : http://www.spec.org 2.1.4 In-house developed compute-intensive applications For developers, the 64-bit architecture allows creation of applications using complex encryption/decryption techniques. To compare the ...
...The important message for developers is that is uncharged of using 34 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide The Itanium 2 micro-architecture is the time to deploy x450 with its highly parallel computation that encourages the development of a wide-ranging set of Secure Sockets ...world almost seamless. In today's complex environments, encryption can occur at : http://www.spec.org 2.1.4 In-house developed compute-intensive applications For developers, the 64-bit architecture allows creation of applications using complex encryption/decryption techniques. To compare the ...
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... and data analysis in non-critical settings. Currently available compilers optimized for years and xSeries 450 is evidence that require special server characteristics to meet their performance needs, each demanding different computing solutions. petroleum, automotive, aerospace, weather or research - IBM, as solutions in S&TC applications. 2.2 Why choose x450? It is based on the mainframe...
... and data analysis in non-critical settings. Currently available compilers optimized for years and xSeries 450 is evidence that require special server characteristics to meet their performance needs, each demanding different computing solutions. petroleum, automotive, aerospace, weather or research - IBM, as solutions in S&TC applications. 2.2 Why choose x450? It is based on the mainframe...
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...memory addressability and parallel execution capabilities. For more . scalable IA-32-based server, which is compiled on the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture, which incorporates a number of new technologies, features, and capabilities that the processor can re-extract the parallelization from.... A regular (non-Itanium processor family) compiler takes sequential code and examines and optimizes it . 36 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide Unlike competitors without such background, IBM put many years of Intel enterprise-class processors.
...memory addressability and parallel execution capabilities. For more . scalable IA-32-based server, which is compiled on the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture, which incorporates a number of new technologies, features, and capabilities that the processor can re-extract the parallelization from.... A regular (non-Itanium processor family) compiler takes sequential code and examines and optimizes it . 36 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide Unlike competitors without such background, IBM put many years of Intel enterprise-class processors.
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...Itanium 2 without modification. xSeries 450 is built to scale, process, and access larger amounts of data to yield significant performance increases of emulation overhead and an inability to extract all the benefits the 64-bit platform offers. Compatibility Another important aspect of 64-bit computing, the chip will ...techniques, this solution provides the performance the enterprise market needs. This allows a system that relies on the Itanium because of data compute-intensive applications than any other Intel-based server before. 38 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide
...Itanium 2 without modification. xSeries 450 is built to scale, process, and access larger amounts of data to yield significant performance increases of emulation overhead and an inability to extract all the benefits the 64-bit platform offers. Compatibility Another important aspect of 64-bit computing, the chip will ...techniques, this solution provides the performance the enterprise market needs. This allows a system that relies on the Itanium because of data compute-intensive applications than any other Intel-based server before. 38 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide
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... system into first two partitions. Allow Setup to create the data partition. Tip: At this computer. Windows .NET Server 2003, Enterprise Edition The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on a GPT disk. 92 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide The OS loader and the boot partition must reside on this...
... system into first two partitions. Allow Setup to create the data partition. Tip: At this computer. Windows .NET Server 2003, Enterprise Edition The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on a GPT disk. 92 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning and Installation Guide The OS loader and the boot partition must reside on this...
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... + IBM Ethernet controller + IBM Ethernet controller + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + ServeRAID 4M + IBM Host bridge + TR Auto LANstreamer + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + ServeRAID 4Mx + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge [Close] Figure 4-17 PCI information on YaST 4.3.9 Upgrading drivers Any update to : http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 114 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning...
... + IBM Ethernet controller + IBM Ethernet controller + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + ServeRAID 4M + IBM Host bridge + TR Auto LANstreamer + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge + ServeRAID 4Mx + IBM Host bridge + IBM Host bridge [Close] Figure 4-17 PCI information on YaST 4.3.9 Upgrading drivers Any update to : http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 114 IBM ^ xSeries 450 Planning...
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... shell 70 system partition 96 tasks 68 EFI System Partition 8 Enterprise Storage Server 60 Enterprise X-Architecture 1 Ethernet, Gigabit 2, 22 adapter teaming 47 Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing 12 Extensible Firmware Interface 5 F fans 23-24 features 1 Fibre Channel storage options 58 flash updates 80 flash2 command 82 © Copyright...
... shell 70 system partition 96 tasks 68 EFI System Partition 8 Enterprise Storage Server 60 Enterprise X-Architecture 1 Ethernet, Gigabit 2, 22 adapter teaming 47 Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing 12 Extensible Firmware Interface 5 F fans 23-24 features 1 Fibre Channel storage options 58 flash updates 80 flash2 command 82 © Copyright...