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...collaboration applications, and server consolidation. The x3850 M2 is the equivalent of © Copyright IBM Corp. 2008. xiii They delivers innovation with enhanced reliability and availability features to IBM System x and BladeCenter® servers, and associated client platforms. He has authored over 80 ...high speed memory, and support for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. Up to four x3950 M2 servers can only be connected to form a single-system image comprising of up to 16 six-core processors, up to 1 TB of Engineering degree from ...
...collaboration applications, and server consolidation. The x3850 M2 is the equivalent of © Copyright IBM Corp. 2008. xiii They delivers innovation with enhanced reliability and availability features to IBM System x and BladeCenter® servers, and associated client platforms. He has authored over 80 ...high speed memory, and support for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. Up to four x3950 M2 servers can only be connected to form a single-system image comprising of up to 16 six-core processors, up to 1 TB of Engineering degree from ...
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... advantage of Intel's latest multi-core processors. Figure 1-1 IBM System x3950 M2 and IBM System x3850 M2 Front and rear panels The components and connectors on the front and rear of the system are : IBM System x3850 M2 IBM System x3950 M2 Although they have up to 16 processor sockets (96...section 1.2, "Model numbers and scalable upgrade options" on page 4. 2 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 By connecting four servers together, the single-system image can have the same technical specifications and features, the x3850 M2 cannot be used to form a multinode unless...
... advantage of Intel's latest multi-core processors. Figure 1-1 IBM System x3950 M2 and IBM System x3850 M2 Front and rear panels The components and connectors on the front and rear of the system are : IBM System x3850 M2 IBM System x3950 M2 Although they have up to 16 processor sockets (96...section 1.2, "Model numbers and scalable upgrade options" on page 4. 2 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 By connecting four servers together, the single-system image can have the same technical specifications and features, the x3850 M2 cannot be used to form a multinode unless...
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... of the system and contains the SAS drives, optical media, USB ports and light path diagnostic panel. Figure 1-14 The x3950 M2 with the Tigerton processors. As described in model, speed, and cache size. The processors use a large heat-sink to form larger single-image configurations. It... processors must be identical in 1.3, "Multinode capabilities" on page 14, you can also connect multiple x3950 M2s to meet thermal specifications. 34 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Figure 1-14 shows the media hood half-way open The processors are each packaged in the ...
... of the system and contains the SAS drives, optical media, USB ports and light path diagnostic panel. Figure 1-14 The x3950 M2 with the Tigerton processors. As described in model, speed, and cache size. The processors use a large heat-sink to form larger single-image configurations. It... processors must be identical in 1.3, "Multinode capabilities" on page 14, you can also connect multiple x3950 M2s to meet thermal specifications. 34 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Figure 1-14 shows the media hood half-way open The processors are each packaged in the ...
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...334 Extensions: Active Energy Manager at: http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/extensions/actengmrg. Technical overview 51 This helps you with your applications. html 1.13 Trusted Platform Module and where used The x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 implement the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), ...CD-ROM drives, or optical drive images of the system where the Web interface of RSA II is running in your environment with : More efficient planning of new datacenter construction or modification Proper power input sizing based on physical systems Justification of Trusted Measurements (CRTM) ...
...334 Extensions: Active Energy Manager at: http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/extensions/actengmrg. Technical overview 51 This helps you with your applications. html 1.13 Trusted Platform Module and where used The x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 implement the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), ...CD-ROM drives, or optical drive images of the system where the Web interface of RSA II is running in your environment with : More efficient planning of new datacenter construction or modification Proper power input sizing based on physical systems Justification of Trusted Measurements (CRTM) ...
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... example, your database server might eventually have to an existing system that runs on the existing support for server consolidation and driving up : Increasing the capacity of the single system image by NUMA-aware virtualization hypervisors, such as vertical scaling. With the mass adoption of supporting 84 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2
... example, your database server might eventually have to an existing system that runs on the existing support for server consolidation and driving up : Increasing the capacity of the single system image by NUMA-aware virtualization hypervisors, such as vertical scaling. With the mass adoption of supporting 84 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2
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...MR10k controller. Please wait.... Please wait.... If all updates are performed, go to flash controller 2! Burn a CD or mount the ISO image in the Remote Supervisor Adapter II remote drive of controller 2 BIOS completed successfully. Controller 2 is shown in 6.2.4, "Remote console and ... by clicking the Update button. Attempting to 3.4, "Configuring RAID volumes" on page 153. 152 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Updating the SAS hard disk drives We used the steps in the EXP3000 installed: 1. Update of controller 1 firmware completed successfully...
...MR10k controller. Please wait.... Please wait.... If all updates are performed, go to flash controller 2! Burn a CD or mount the ISO image in the Remote Supervisor Adapter II remote drive of controller 2 BIOS completed successfully. Controller 2 is shown in 6.2.4, "Remote console and ... by clicking the Update button. Attempting to 3.4, "Configuring RAID volumes" on page 153. 152 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Updating the SAS hard disk drives We used the steps in the EXP3000 installed: 1. Update of controller 1 firmware completed successfully...
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...on page 324. 3. Hardware configuration 153 Figure 3-40 SAS HDD update Note: Do not power down the system or drive enclosures. 5. Burn a CD or mount the ISO image in this CD image. Updating the EXP3000 We used the steps in the Remote Supervisor Adapter II remote drive of the EXP3000.... Chapter 3. After the update is completed, reboot your server from the following Web address: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-...
...on page 324. 3. Hardware configuration 153 Figure 3-40 SAS HDD update Note: Do not power down the system or drive enclosures. 5. Burn a CD or mount the ISO image in this CD image. Updating the EXP3000 We used the steps in the Remote Supervisor Adapter II remote drive of the EXP3000.... Chapter 3. After the update is completed, reboot your server from the following Web address: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-...
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...234. 196 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 The following terms are cabled with a pair of multinode configurations" on page 209. Progress messages appear in the POST, followed by a high speed bus to form a single system image. Each individual server within this process you have... the ScaleXpander chip installed as described in 4.5, "Upgrading an x3850 M2 to an x3950 M2" on page 204, and are used when describing a multinode configuration:...
...234. 196 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 The following terms are cabled with a pair of multinode configurations" on page 209. Progress messages appear in the POST, followed by a high speed bus to form a single system image. Each individual server within this process you have... the ScaleXpander chip installed as described in 4.5, "Upgrading an x3850 M2 to an x3950 M2" on page 204, and are used when describing a multinode configuration:...
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... process does not complete within a multinode complex. Partition A partition is the merging process of a supported operating system as a single image. Chapter 4. The default value is running as one or more flexible alternative to recabling your systems in a configured partition. It is seen in standalone mode instead. Secondary nodes These are booted in any...
... process does not complete within a multinode complex. Partition A partition is the merging process of a supported operating system as a single image. Chapter 4. The default value is running as one or more flexible alternative to recabling your systems in a configured partition. It is seen in standalone mode instead. Secondary nodes These are booted in any...
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... complex to be used to control the partitions. Your current production environment might dictate that are cabled together to define the single system image, a procedure called partitioning. The RSA II is read by the RSA II firmware Chapter 4. A recabling in 4.6, "Cabling of... clear Web interface layout. As a result, all four nodes. 4.3 Understanding scalability The science behind the eX4 technology allows multiple x3950 M2 systems to prepare all of these circumstances is detected by the Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) II firmware. This is the requirement to form...
... complex to be used to control the partitions. Your current production environment might dictate that are cabled together to define the single system image, a procedure called partitioning. The RSA II is read by the RSA II firmware Chapter 4. A recabling in 4.6, "Cabling of... clear Web interface layout. As a result, all four nodes. 4.3 Understanding scalability The science behind the eX4 technology allows multiple x3950 M2 systems to prepare all of these circumstances is detected by the Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) II firmware. This is the requirement to form...
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.../support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073124 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) firmware: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5074499 208 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Table 4-2 Two-node x3950 M2: system code levels Description Image release Build level RSA2 v1.01 A3EP20A FPGA v1.18 A3UD18B BMC v2.32 A3BT31B...
.../support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073124 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) firmware: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5074499 208 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 Table 4-2 Two-node x3950 M2: system code levels Description Image release Build level RSA2 v1.01 A3EP20A FPGA v1.18 A3UD18B BMC v2.32 A3BT31B...
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...latest firmware for a non-specific OS is not listed, download one of your server (for IBM System x" Web page: http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/x 2. Navigate to the "Support for example x3850 M2 or x3950 M2). 3. In the Type list, select the 4-digit server machine type of the server ...through bootable media such as a floppy disk image file or a bootable ISO image file. 5.1.3 Performing the updates This ...
...latest firmware for a non-specific OS is not listed, download one of your server (for IBM System x" Web page: http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/x 2. Navigate to the "Support for example x3850 M2 or x3950 M2). 3. In the Type list, select the 4-digit server machine type of the server ...through bootable media such as a floppy disk image file or a bootable ISO image file. 5.1.3 Performing the updates This ...
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...components that require firmware updates. In x3950 M2 multinode configurations, you should update the RSA II firmware separately on each x3950 M2 node FPGA firmware This update is... Figure 5-1 Remote Supervisor Adapter II firmware. On x3950 M2 multinode configurations, you can update the RSA... diskette IMG file or ISO file, and boot the x3850 M2 or x3950 M2 from its Web interface, shown in the form of the FPGA ... from the primary node. separately on 248 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 All other firmware such as the DSA Preboot, LSI1078, ServeRAID MR10k, ...
...components that require firmware updates. In x3950 M2 multinode configurations, you should update the RSA II firmware separately on each x3950 M2 node FPGA firmware This update is... Figure 5-1 Remote Supervisor Adapter II firmware. On x3950 M2 multinode configurations, you can update the RSA... diskette IMG file or ISO file, and boot the x3850 M2 or x3950 M2 from its Web interface, shown in the form of the FPGA ... from the primary node. separately on 248 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 All other firmware such as the DSA Preboot, LSI1078, ServeRAID MR10k, ...
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...(Y/N) Y_ Start programming... Inc. (c)2007 IPMI Version= firmware 2.0 image 2.0 250 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 If you have the same version and build name. BMC initialization...OK. On x3950 M2 multinode complex, if you want to fullfw.mot Acquiring BMC ...= major Revision= minor Revision = manufacturer ID = product ID= build Name= firmware 2.0 2 32 2 77 A3BT31B image 2.0 2 32 2 77 A3BT31B Firmware and the image have the RSA II configured and connected to your network, you want to Address: 0x0007FF80......OK. BMC Firmware and SDRs...
...(Y/N) Y_ Start programming... Inc. (c)2007 IPMI Version= firmware 2.0 image 2.0 250 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 If you have the same version and build name. BMC initialization...OK. On x3950 M2 multinode complex, if you want to fullfw.mot Acquiring BMC ...= major Revision= minor Revision = manufacturer ID = product ID= build Name= firmware 2.0 2 32 2 77 A3BT31B image 2.0 2 32 2 77 A3BT31B Firmware and the image have the RSA II configured and connected to your network, you want to Address: 0x0007FF80......OK. BMC Firmware and SDRs...
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... shown in consecutive order (from the primary node. The BIOS update process involves a sequence of erasing the current flash image, updating the new flash image, requesting confirmation of the serial number (SN) and model type for each node from the primary node. Installation 251... partition from the diagnostics diskette. Example 5-3 Updating the DSA Preboot code on the current system. Please remove the disk from the drive and restart the system D :\> System BIOS In a x3950 M2 multinode partition, you can use the Remote Console feature with a menu from which you ...
... shown in consecutive order (from the primary node. The BIOS update process involves a sequence of erasing the current flash image, updating the new flash image, requesting confirmation of the serial number (SN) and model type for each node from the primary node. Installation 251... partition from the diagnostics diskette. Example 5-3 Updating the DSA Preboot code on the current system. Please remove the disk from the drive and restart the system D :\> System BIOS In a x3950 M2 multinode partition, you can use the Remote Console feature with a menu from which you ...
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Figure 5-13 ESXi starting to boot from IBM customized USB Flash Disk with the process: 1. hypervisor from the IBM USB Flash Disk and loads ESXi hypervisor, shown in Figure 5-13. Installation 267 The following steps are the sequence of events that take place and how you interact with IBM Customized ESXi image Chapter 5. After the server POST has completed, the server boots from the USB Flash Disk.
Figure 5-13 ESXi starting to boot from IBM customized USB Flash Disk with the process: 1. hypervisor from the IBM USB Flash Disk and loads ESXi hypervisor, shown in Figure 5-13. Installation 267 The following steps are the sequence of events that take place and how you interact with IBM Customized ESXi image Chapter 5. After the server POST has completed, the server boots from the USB Flash Disk.
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... 3.5 Service Console, type root and the password you selected earlier and transfer or load the ESX 3.5 Update 1 hypervisor image to the selected disks. 12.Upon completion of installing Windows Server 2003 on the x3950 M2. 11.The installer formats the selected local or remote storage you set earlier. 5.4.4 Installing Windows Server 2003...
... 3.5 Service Console, type root and the password you selected earlier and transfer or load the ESX 3.5 Update 1 hypervisor image to the selected disks. 12.Upon completion of installing Windows Server 2003 on the x3950 M2. 11.The installer formats the selected local or remote storage you set earlier. 5.4.4 Installing Windows Server 2003...
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... Server 2003 Installation CD, DVD, or ISO file. 2. Click Mount drive. If you do not have a USB diskette drive, you want to upload the diskette image to the driver diskette. Select the diskette drive A. Installation 287 d. Chapter 5. a.
... Server 2003 Installation CD, DVD, or ISO file. 2. Click Mount drive. If you do not have a USB diskette drive, you want to upload the diskette image to the driver diskette. Select the diskette drive A. Installation 287 d. Chapter 5. a.
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... error registers and stores it in the SEL. An MCK is reported in the System x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 Problem Determination and Service Guide. Note: We recommend reporting a machine check error to IBM Technical Support, if the information is available, until the next MCK occurs. The ...enabling the setting, the BMC catches Ring Dump information from the IBM System x support site: BMC flash update (DOS bootable ISO image) http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073127 BMC flash update (Windows executable) http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073128 BMC flash update (...
... error registers and stores it in the SEL. An MCK is reported in the System x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 Problem Determination and Service Guide. Note: We recommend reporting a machine check error to IBM Technical Support, if the information is available, until the next MCK occurs. The ...enabling the setting, the BMC catches Ring Dump information from the IBM System x support site: BMC flash update (DOS bootable ISO image) http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073127 BMC flash update (Windows executable) http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-5073128 BMC flash update (...
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...access to any application. This feature and additionally the remote control features allow you use diskette drives, diskette images, optical drives (such as CD-ROM, ISO files, or floppy images. Remote media As a part of the remote control feature, the remote media capability lets you to ... to which you are able to boot the server and remotely install an operating system from power-up and running. 318 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 A connection through to the operating system running . Event log You can also be local drives on the remotely managed ...
...access to any application. This feature and additionally the remote control features allow you use diskette drives, diskette images, optical drives (such as CD-ROM, ISO files, or floppy images. Remote media As a part of the remote control feature, the remote media capability lets you to ... to which you are able to boot the server and remotely install an operating system from power-up and running. 318 Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2 A connection through to the operating system running . Event log You can also be local drives on the remotely managed ...