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IBM 8687 - Eserver xSeries 440 Planning And Installation Manual - 1.5  Smp Expansion Module

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    Ibm.Com/redbooks ibm xseries 440 planning and installation guide david watts reza fanaei aghdam duncan furniss jason king describes the technical details of the x440 models helps you prepare for and perform an installation covers key ibm director management tools front cover.

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    Ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide october 2002 international technical support organization sg24-6196-00

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    © copyright international business machines corporation 2002. All rights reserved. Note to u.S. Government users restricted rights -- use, duplication or disclosure restricted by gsa adp schedule contract with ibm corp. First edition (october 2002) this edition applies to the ibm ^ xseries 440, mach...

  • Page 5: Contents

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. Iii contents notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vii trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viii ...

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    Iv ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 2.3 the benefits of system partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 2.4 server consolidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 2.4.1 types of server consolidatio...

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    Contents v 4.3 operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 4.3.1 microsoft windows 2000 server and advanced server . . . . . . . . . 112 4.3.2 red hat linux installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 4.3.3 ...

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    Vi ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide.

  • Page 9: Notices

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. Vii notices this information was developed for products and services offered in the u.S.A. Ibm may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries. Consult your local ibm representative for information on th...

  • Page 10: Trademarks

    Viii ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide trademarks the following terms are trademarks of the international business machines corporation in the united states, other countries, or both: active memory™ active™ pci-x chipkill™ db2® electronic service agent™ enterprise storage server™ esc...

  • Page 11: Preface

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. Ix preface the ibm ^ xseries 440 is ibm’s flagship industry standard server and is the first full implementation of the 32-bit ibm xa-32 chipset, code named “summit”, as part of the enterprise x-architecture strategy. The x440 provides new levels of h...

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    X ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide recent books include integrating ibm director with enterprise management solutions and implementing ibm director management solutions. He has a bachelor of engineering degree from the university of queensland (australia) and has worked for ibm for ...

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    Preface xi the team (l-r): david, duncan, reza, jason thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project: alfredo aldereguia, lead engineer, ss16 system development, raleigh kenny bain, emea advanced technical support, greenock patrick de broux, it consultant, ats product introdu...

  • Page 14: Become A Published Author

    Xii ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide damon west, course developer, xseries education, raleigh thanks also to the team that wrote the redbook server consolidation with the ibm ^ xseries 440 and vmware esx server, sg24-6852: steve russell, keith olsen, gabriel sallah, and chandrasekha...

  • Page 15: Technical Description

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 1 chapter 1. Technical description the ibm ^ xseries 440 is the latest ibm top-of-the-range server and is the first full implementation of the 32-bit ibm xa-32 chipset, code named “summit” as part of the enterprise x-architecture strategy. The x440 pr...

  • Page 16: 1.1  The X440 Product Line

    2 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide memory enhancement such as memory mirroring, chipkill, and memory protexion six active pci-x slots: two 64-bit 133 mhz, two 64-bit 100 mhz, two 64-bit 66 mhz connectivity to an rxe-100 external pci-x enclosure for an additional 12 pci-x slots integ...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 3 products. Additional testing pertains directly to the complexity of multiple smp configurations and the time commitment required for testing the serverproven list against each of these configurations. All of the capabilities of the x440, including 16-way smp capabi...

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    4 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-1 x440 configurations currently available the attachment of a single rxe-100 remote expansion enclosure is also supported, as shown in figure 1-1. The rxe-100 has six pci-x slots standard, upgradable to 12 pci-x slots, giving the customer ...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 5 figure 1-2 16-way server configuration using two eight-way x440 nodes figure 1-3 eight-way and 12-way two-node configurations one 16-way complex each xseries 440 has: eight cpus 4-64 gb memory rxe-100 6 pci-x slots 12 pci-x slots rxe expansion connections smp expan...

  • Page 20: 1.2  System Partitioning

    6 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 1.2 system partitioning partitioning is the ability to divide a system to support multiple operating system images simultaneously. The benefits of system partitioning include: hardware consolidation software migration and coexistence version contro...

  • Page 21: 1.3  Ibm Xa-32 Chipset

    Chapter 1. Technical description 7 with physical partitioning, a single multinode server complex can simultaneously run multiple instances of one operating system in separate partitions, as well as multiple versions of an operating system or even different types of operating systems. The components ...

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    8 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-4 xseries 440 system block diagram — one smp expansion module the component that contains the cpus, processor/cache controller, memory controller, memory, and cache is called the smp expansion module (or central electronics complex—cec). T...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 9 the cpus are connected together with a 100 mhz frontside bus, but supply data at an effective rate of 400 mhz using the “quad-pump” design of the intel netburst architecture as described in 1.4.1, “intel xeon processor mp” on page 13. To ensure the processors are o...

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    10 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-5 xseries 440 system block diagram — two smp expansion modules when two smp expansion modules are installed, they are connected together using two 3.2 gbps smp expansion ports. The third scalability port is not used in this single-node ei...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 11 as of november 2002, you can connect two x440 servers together to form one 16-way complex. The two x440 nodes are connected together using all three smp expansion ports as shown in figure 1-6. Figure 1-6 16-way configuration (four smp expansion modules) the rear p...

  • Page 26: 1.4  Processors

    12 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-7 rear panel of the xseries 440 (one smp expansion module installed) 1.4 processors the x440 models use one of the following processors: xeon processor mp (“gallatin”) xeon processor mp (“foster”) xeon processor dp (“prestonia”) the xeon ...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 13 1.4.1 intel xeon processor mp the xeon processor mp (code named “foster” or “gallatin”) returns to the zif socket design of the original pentium processor, instead of the slot 2 cartridge design of the pentium iii xeon processors. This smaller form factor means th...

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    14 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide this increases the performance of the frontside bus without the difficulty of high-speed clock signal integrity issues. The end result is an effective burst throughput of 3.2 gbps, which can have a substantial impact, especially on tcp/ip-based la...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 15 each logical processor can be individually halted, interrupted, or directed to execute a specified thread, independently from the other logical processor on the chip. Unlike a traditional two-way smp configuration that uses two separate physical processors, the lo...

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    16 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide advanced dynamic execution the pentium iii xeon processor has a 10-stage pipeline. However, the large number of transistors in each pipeline stage means that the processor is limited to speeds under 1 ghz, due to latency in the pipeline. The xeon ...

  • Page 31: 1.5  Smp Expansion Module

    Chapter 1. Technical description 17 for more information about the features of the xeon processor dp, go to: http://www.Intel.Com/design/xeon/prodbref 1.5 smp expansion module the smp expansion module is the central electronics complex that contains the processors, memory, l4 system cache, and respe...

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    18 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-10 smp expansion module each smp expansion module also contains 16 dimm slots to take the memory up to a maximum of 64 gb per node (using 2 gb dimms) and an additional 32 mb of level 4 system cache for a maximum of 64 mb per node. When tw...

  • Page 33: 1.7  System Memory

    Chapter 1. Technical description 19 1.6 ibm xcel4 server accelerator cache integrated into each smp expansion module is 32 mb of high-speed level 4 cache (see figure 1-10). This xcel4 server accelerator cache provides the necessary extra level of cache to alleviate the bottlenecks caused by memory l...

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    20 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-11 memory protexion in the event that a chip failure on the dimm is detected by memory scrubbing, the memory controller can re-route data around that failed chip through the spare bits (similar to the hot-spare drive of raid array). It ca...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 21 memory mirroring memory mirroring is roughly equivalent to raid-1 in disk arrays, in that memory is divided in two ports and one port is mirrored to the other half (see figure 1-12). If 8 gb is installed, then the operating system sees 4 gb once memory mirroring i...

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    22 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide data in the damaged dimm is used until the system is powered down and the dimm replaced. Certain restrictions exist with respect to placement and size of memory dimms when memory mirroring is enabled. These are discussed in “memory mirroring” on p...

  • Page 37: 1.8  Pci Subsystem

    Chapter 1. Technical description 23 note: the ability to hot-replace a failed dimm or hot-add additional dimms are currently not supported. 1.8 pci subsystem as shown in figure 1-4 on page 8, there are six pci-x slots internal to the x440: two 133 mhz slots, which accept 32 or 64-bit, 3.3 v, pci or ...

  • Page 38: 1.9  Redundancy

    24 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide with the addition of an rxe-100 remote expansion enclosure, you can connect an additional six or 12 pci-x adapters to the x440. See 3.2.3, “remote expansion enclosure” on page 78 for details. Note: currently, only one rxe-100 can be connected to a...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 25 two hot-swap hard disk drive bays. An optional serveraid adapter can be configured to form a raid-1 disk array for the operating system. The memory subsystem has a number of redundancy features, including memory mirroring, as described in 1.7, “system memory” on p...

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    26 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 1-14 light path diagnostics panel on the x440 the light path diagnostics on the x440 has three levels: 1. Level 1 is the pop-out panel as shown in figure 1-14. 2. For further investigation, there are light path diagnostics leds visible thro...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 27 1.11 remote supervisor adapter the x440 includes a remote supervisor adapter (rsa), which is positioned horizontally in a dedicated pci slot beneath the pci-x adapter area of the system. Figure 1-15 remote supervisor adapter connectors the remote supervisor adapte...

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    28 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide in addition to these functions, the remote supervisor adapter is an integral component of the two-node x440 configurations. With the two-node 16-way configuration, the adapters are used in the following way: the adapters in both systems are each a...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 29 table 1-3 x440 operating system support notes to table 1-3: 1. While operating systems may support eight-way or larger systems, scalability is a function of both the operating system and the application/workload. Few applications are designed to take advantage of ...

  • Page 44: 1.13  Ibm Director

    30 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide – with netware 6.0, the server may show extreme cpu utilization values (for example, 13000%). This will be fixed with netware 6.0 support pack 2. See retain tip h176060 at: http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/qtechinfo/migr-43532.Html – once supported, a multi-...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 31 administrator to configure a specific server (while it is offline) from a remote system, prior to starting the operating system. See 5.2, “system partition manager” on page 150 for more information. Active pci manager — active pci manager helps optimize i/o perfor...

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    32 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide for raid components and hard disk drives. This reduces labor and service costs by providing replacement part information in the alert message so that the correct part can be obtained for the service call. Software rejuvenation — in networked serve...

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    Chapter 1. Technical description 33 with ibm, including providing a contact name and phone number, and is available for systems covered under warranty or maintenance agreements. Electronic service agent currently requires the use of an analog phone line and modem. Access via vpn may be possible in f...

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  • Page 49: Positioning

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 35 chapter 2. Positioning in this chapter we discuss topics that help you understand how the x440 can be useful to your business and what is the best configuration to use. The topics covered are: xseries 440 application solutions why choose the x440 t...

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    36 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 2.1 xseries 440 application solutions the x440 is an ideal platform for customers running mission-critical applications. There are a number of ways the x440 can be deployed in specific application solution environments. These include: server conso...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 37 vmware many file and print servers that are distributed around the enterprise can be consolidated to a four-way x440 server, reducing the tco. Using logical partitioning with four-way configurations can produce a one-box cluster solution for small-to-medium-sized businesses...

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    38 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 2.1.2 enterprise applications because enterprise applications such as erp, scm, crm and bi work with the most critical data of a business, x440 with its high-availability features is an ideal server for these applications. Enterprise resource plan...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 39 application server or in a heterogeneous environment as a front-end to a pseries or zseries database server. Key scm software vendors include i2 technologies, sap, international business systems (ibs), jd edwards, and peoplesoft. Customer relationship management customer re...

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    40 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 2.1.3 infrastructure applications some of the infrastructure applications are database, messaging/collaboration, and e-business applications. The x440 can be recommended for these three areas as follows: database applications: four-way and eight-w...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 41 sources. These types of servers benefit from the processing power offered by the x440. Key e-business software vendors include ibm (websphere) and bea. 2.1.4 clustering a cluster is group of independent computers, also known as nodes, that are linked together to provide hig...

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    42 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 2-1 one-box cluster running vmware with virtual shared storage using vmware, this allows you to set up a one-box cluster, which provides the following benefits: – much lower cost than for duplicate systems required for traditional-based clu...

  • Page 57: 2.2  Why Choose The X440

    Chapter 2. Positioning 43 figure 2-2 four clusters on two x440s running vmware with shared storage dual-chassis eight-way configuration can be used as clustered database servers and/or application servers in an erp/crm/scm environment, delivering high performance, high availability, and reliability,...

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    44 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide this chipset is built on ibm’s advanced copper 0.13-micron technology, which creates faster, lower power-consuming and heat-producing chips. So servers built with the chipsets will run faster, have lower power costs, and require less cooling, whic...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 45 figure 2-3 comparing processor performance the three-level cache architecture of the xeon mp processor delivers the following benefits compared to xeon piii processor: – higher throughput: peak bandwidth of 51.2 gbps compared to 28.8 gbps for xeon piii processor. – improved...

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    46 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide x440s with xeon dp processors are a good platform for customers who are looking for better price/performance platforms but still maintain high levels of scalability that the x440 provides. Lab tests using standard transaction processing benchmark ...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 47 on that port would send the alert and take down the dimm, but keep the system running out of the redundant memory bank. To maintain throughput to the processors, the x440 memory subsystem improves performance by the use of four-way interleaving. Interleaving improves memory...

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    48 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the modular scalability feature of xpandondemand offers the following benefits: performance scalability through the smp expansion module smp expansion modules can be easily added at any time to increase the operational capacity of a node. By addin...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 49 2.3 the benefits of system partitioning system partitioning is virtualization of system resources, including processor, memory, i/o, and storage so that all concurrent users appear to have access to the system, although each user is actually segmented and protected from the...

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    50 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide two types of system partitioning are: physical partitioning with physical partitioning, a single server consisting of two nodes, such as the x440, can run multiple instances of an operating system in separate partitions. It can also run multiple v...

  • Page 65: 2.4  Server Consolidation

    Chapter 2. Positioning 51 using ibm technology such as memory mirroring, chipkill memory, memory protexion and system partitioning, customers can implement high-availability cluster solutions. Scalable clusters provide customers with industry-leading scalability at a system level, as well as load ba...

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    52 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide these are summarized in table 2-1 and described in detail below. Table 2-1 server consolidation strategies centralization server consolidation means different things to different people. As shown in figure 2-4, in its simplest form, servers are ph...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 53 to a single server room, or moving 200 servers originally installed across 20 locations to three data centers. – relocating existing servers to one or fewer it sites centralization, or data center consolidation, may be a first step for an organization after a merger. After ...

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    54 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide with its enterprise x-architecture enabled features, the x440 server offers flexibility, availability, and scalability to handle customer requirements for consolidating distributed workloads onto a single powerful and highly available platform to ...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 55 with x440 capabilities such as system partitioning, you can migrate and consolidate workloads across systems for improvements in systems management and resource utilization. This approach is typically appropriate for implementations of key packaged applications such as sap,...

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    56 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide application integration application integration is the combining of multiple, similar applications, such as web servers, onto one consolidated server. Application integration is also the combining of different application workload types within a s...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 57 levels, simplified backups and restores, and better asset management and security. Rational in combination, or rational, consolidation, the company's distributed applications and services are combined onto fewer servers. It is a considerably more complex undertaking, but th...

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    58 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide a single point of control allows enterprises to: – reduce or eliminate department operational costs – reduce some software licenses – reduce number of systems, disk storage costs – reduce maintenance charges – avoid multiple copies of the same app...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 59 manageability and availability server consolidation can help you improve manageability and availability of it systems in the following ways: – enterprise management - integrated operations allows for consistent management of all facilities and it services. – consistent perf...

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    60 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide run at 50-60% utilization. Excess or underutilized capacity on one server cannot be shared with workloads of other servers in a distributed environment. – optimization of skilled resources - under the distributed alternative, systems management re...

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    Chapter 2. Positioning 61 – implementing critical new solutions that may enable a competitive edge is easier. Reduced technical complexity three-tier logical architectures tend, in practice, to become five-tier architectures (client, local server, central server, gateway, and enterprise server). Ser...

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  • Page 77: Planning

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 63 chapter 3. Planning in this chapter we discuss topics you need to consider before you finalize the configuration of your x440 system and before you begin implementing the system. The topics covered are: system hardware cabling and connectivity stor...

  • Page 78: 3.1  System Hardware

    64 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 3.1 system hardware the x440 provides a scalable and flexible hardware platform. There are a number of important aspects of the system hardware to consider when planning your configuration. These are discussed in this section. 3.1.1 processors the...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 65 for servers with xeon mp processors: – ensure you order sufficient processors to maintain a supported configuration of two, four, or eight cpus. Other quantities of cpus (3, 5, 6, or 7) are not supported. – the standard smp expansion module must have four processors installed ...

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    66 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide physically, the banks occupy alternating sockets, as shown in figure 3-1 on page 66. Figure 3-1 dimms sockets on the x440 smp expansion module key memory configuration rules: because the x440 uses four-way interleaving, memory dimms must be instal...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 67 memory mirroring as discussed in 1.7, “system memory” on page 19, memory mirroring is supported by the x440 for increased fault tolerance and high levels of availability. Key configuration rules relating to memory mirroring: memory mirroring must be enabled in the bios (it is ...

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    68 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide when installing dimms, try to evenly divide the amount of ram available between the two ports. For example, if you have 12 dimms (eight 512 mb dimms and four 1 gb dimms for a total of 8 gb), install all eight 512 mb dimms (4 gb) in one port and th...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 69 figure 3-2 x440 block diagram showing the internal pci-x slots these slots can accept adapters rated at speeds ranging from 33 mhz to 133 mhz. When deciding which adapters to put in which slots, we recommend you use the active pci manager wizard to help you determine the best ...

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    70 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide as extreme configuration examples, you could configure either of the following: six 33 mhz pci adapters, all operating at 33 mhz. Six 133 mhz pci-x adapters, with two operating at 133 mhz (buses c and d), two at 100 mhz (bus b) and two at 66 mhz (...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 71 figure 3-3 pci-x slots in the x440 other configuration information: the x440 server supports connection to the rxe-100. Refer to 3.2.3, “remote expansion enclosure” on page 78 for more information. Video adapters are not supported. The pci slots supports 3.3 v adapters only. T...

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    72 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide some long adapters have extension handles or brackets installed. Before installing the adapter, you must remove the extension handle or bracket. The system scans pci-x slots to assign system resources. The system attempts to start the first device...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 73 category 5 or better ethernet cabling is required with rj-45 connectors. If you plan to implement a gigabit ethernet connection, ensure your network infrastructure is capable of the necessary throughput to match the server’s i/o capacity. You will need to provide ethernet cabl...

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    74 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 3.2 cabling and connectivity there are a number of unique factors to consider when cabling the x440 server: smp expansion module connectivity remote supervisor adapter connectivity rxe-100 connectivity serial connectivity we discuss each of these ...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 75 when a second smp expansion module is installed in the x440, an additional three smp expansion ports are made available on the rear of the chassis, giving a total of six. The smp expansion module option includes two cables that are used to connect the modules together, as show...

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    76 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 3-6 connecting the two x440s together in a 16-way configuration the two x440s are connected through the scalability port on each smp expansion module and require the installation of four 3.5 m remote i/o cables (part number 31p6102) to comp...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 77 in 16-way configurations, the ethernet port on the remote supervisor adapter in one system is connected to the ethernet port of the adapter in the other system. This connection is used during system startup and shutdown. We recommend either of the following connections: – conn...

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    78 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide if this power supply is not used, the rsa will draw power from the server as long as the server is connected to a functioning power source. 9-pin serial port, which supports systems management functions through null modem or modem connections. Eth...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 79 figure 3-8 rxe-100 pci-x expansion board (6 slots) for each of the three buses (a, b, c), one of the following can be installed: one 64-bit 3.3 v pci-x 133 mhz adapter (in the odd-numbered slot), running at up to 133 mhz two 64-bit 3.3 v pci-x 133 mhz adapters running at up to...

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    80 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide installed adapters will operate at the slowest of three speeds: – the rated speed of adapter 1 in the bus – the rated speed of adapter 2 in the bus – the rated speed of the bus 32-bit adapters can be installed in any of the slots and will run in 3...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 81 figure 3-9 connecting the rxe-100 to the x440 with single-node configurations (that is only one x440 node in a two, four or eight-way configuration), only one rxe-100 can be connected using one remote i/o cable as shown in figure 3-9. In this configuration, all 12 slots in the...

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    82 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 3-10 connecting an rxe-100 to a 16-way x440 configuration all 12 slots in the rxe-100 are available to the operating system, with six slots being accessed over each cable. If one cable connection fails, all 12 slots are accessed over the su...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 83 if the rxe-100 has the second set of six pci slots installed, use the short interconnect management cable (supplied with the pci slot option kit) to connect management a (out) port to management b (in) port (see figure 3-9 on page 81). The 8 m interconnect management cable is ...

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    84 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 15,000 rpm and the converged tray design are supported. To configure raid-1, a serveraid adapter is required. The serveraid-4mx and serveraid-4lx can be used for connection to the hot-swap backplane of the internal drive bays. Note: the x440 has t...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 85 serveraid-4lx features one ultra160 scsi channel, 32 mb of ecc cache memory, and an intel i80303 processor. Up to 14 ultra160 and ultra2 scsi devices are supported. Each serveraid adapter supports up to 14 drives (and 160 mb per second throughput) per channel (for an aggregate...

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    86 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the fastt200 high availability (ha) storage server, which contains two raid controllers and can therefore provide higher availability. Both models feature hot-swap and redundant power supplies and fans and you can install up to 10 slim-line or hal...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 87 the enclosures can be connected in a fully redundant manner, which provides a very high level of availability. On the host side fc connections, you can use up to four mini-hubs. This allows you to establish up to eight host connections without needing an external hub or a swit...

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    88 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide enterprise storage server (ess) ess provides integrated caching and raid support for the attached disk devices. Ess can be configured in a variety of ways to provide scalability in capacity and performance. One ess can support in excess of 28 tb a...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 89 a detailed discussion on performance tuning disk subsystems in xseries servers is available in the redbook tuning ibm ^ xseries servers for performance, sg24-5287. 3.3.3 tape backup as with your disk subsystem, you need to carefully analyze backup requirements before a tape so...

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    90 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the following redbooks discuss ibm tape solutions in greater detail: netfinity tape solutions, sg24-5218 the ibm lto ultrium tape libraries guide, sg24-5946 3.4 server partitioning and consolidation the concepts of server partitioning and consolid...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 91 additional logical processors and spawning multiple threads, which can exploit the additional processing power. As well as considering whether the operating system you are installing supports hyper-threading, there may be licensing implications to consider before enabling hype...

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    92 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide notes to table 3-2: 1. While operating systems may support eight-way or larger systems, scalability is a function of both the operating system and the application/workload. Few applications are designed to take advantage of larger smp systems. 2. ...

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    Chapter 3. Planning 93 transaction processing, large-scale data warehousing, and scientific simulations are some of the applications that datacenter is optimized for. Datacenter server features include: support for 32 processors supports up to 32 gb of memory four node cluster support supports netwo...

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    94 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide table 3-3 factory configurable eight-way datacenter server models option 2: software-only preload kit. This cd-rom kit allows a customer to install datacenter server on an existing x440 configuration thatis already certified for use with datacente...

  • Page 109

    Chapter 3. Planning 95 datacenter 16-way fixed configurations can be achieved in two ways: new datacenter configuration customers can purchase the complete solution directly from ibm through the special bid program, or through the exact business partner program. When using the special bid program, i...

  • Page 110

    96 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide processors in an x440 are viewed exactly the same as eight processors in an x370. There are no plans from microsoft to patch windows nt 4.0 enterprise edition to support hyper-threading technology. A custom hardware abstraction layer (hal) must be...

  • Page 111

    Chapter 3. Planning 97 3.5.4 microsoft windows .Net server microsoft is adding “numa enhanced” cpu-affinity code and hyper-threading optimization to maximize the performance of xpandondemand numa-based servers such as the x440. Windows .Net server operating systems will understand the concept of phy...

  • Page 112

    98 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the xseries development team, the ibm linux technology center, and other parts of ibm are working with the linux community, red hat, suse, and other linux alliance partners to develop advanced enterprise x-architecture features in upcoming release...

  • Page 113

    Chapter 3. Planning 99 dynamic logical partitioning involves: partitioning server resources the esx server acts as the host operating system, provides dynamic logical partitions to hold other operating systems, and virtualizes most system resources, including processors, memory, network capacity, an...

  • Page 114

    100 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide currently esx server does not support hyper-threading technology. For support information including supported servers, see: http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/ww/eserver/xseries/vmware.Html for more information on vmware, refer to the redbook server consolida...

  • Page 115

    Chapter 3. Planning 101 having faster machines in the server hardware space means more parallelism (more processors, larger memory, larger disk arrays, additional pci buses, and so on). The obvious case of software that does not scale is dos. Run dos on a server with eight cpus, 16 gb of memory, equ...

  • Page 116: 3.7  Rack Installation

    102 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 3-12 effect of adding processors under file/print and application environments smp will not provide a linear improvement in processing power as additional processors are added. You might achieve a 70-90% performance increase from the secon...

  • Page 117: 3.8  Power Considerations

    Chapter 3. Planning 103 for thermal considerations, the x440 must be installed with perforated doors on both front and back. Do not install the x440 in a rack with a glass front door. Although installation is supported in non-enterprise racks, it is not recommended, since cable management then becom...

  • Page 118

    104 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide therefore, ibm recommends that the x440 be connected to a 220 v power source to ensure power supply redundancy for large configurations. Two system power-cord connectors are available on the back of the x440, one for each of the power supplies. C...

  • Page 119

    Chapter 3. Planning 105 – process dictates expert personnel's participation – formal, rigorous peer – for low-to-medium-risk solutions – informal, inexpensive self – for low-risk solutions – informal, inexpensive esar — electronic solution assurance review there is also an esar tool available to hel...

  • Page 120

    106 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide.

  • Page 121: Installation

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 107 chapter 4. Installation in this chapter we describe procedures specific to the installation of windows 2000, linux, novell netware and vmware operating systems on the x440 platform. Topics covered include: system bios settings device drivers opera...

  • Page 122: 4.1  System Bios Settings

    108 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 4.1 system bios settings this section describes system bios settings that you may need to configure prior to installing an operating system. 4.1.1 updating bios and firmware we recommend you check the bios and firmware levels on the items listed ...

  • Page 123

    Chapter 4. Installation 109 figure 4-1 enabling memory mirroring 3. Select the smp expansion module you want memory mirroring enabled on and press the right arrow key to change the value to enabled. 4. Exit the system configuration utility and save any changes. 5. Once memory mirroring is enabled, y...

  • Page 124

    110 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide configuration rules, performance issues and potential licensing implications related to hyper-threading before you proceed. To enable hyper-threading on the x440, do the following: 1. Press f1 during system startup to enter the system configurati...

  • Page 125: 4.2  Device Drivers

    Chapter 4. Installation 111 4.2 device drivers specific device drivers are available for the x440 that may not be included with the base operating system. Drivers that you should obtain separately from the operating system include: broadcom ethernet controller active pci-x controller remote supervis...

  • Page 126

    112 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 4.3.1 microsoft windows 2000 server and advanced server before commencing the installation of windows 2000 server or advanced server, ensure that bios and firmware levels have been updated to the latest levels. Refer to “updating bios and firmwar...

  • Page 127

    Chapter 4. Installation 113 3. When you see the following message, immediately press f5: setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configuration... If you plan to install the operating system on disks attached to a serveraid controller, press f6 at this point so that you will be prompted to insta...

  • Page 128

    114 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 4-4 selecting computer type from custom hal disk 7. If you pressed f6 to add mass storage device drivers, such as for a serveraid controller, you will now be prompted to insert the driver disk. 8. Continue the windows 2000 installation and...

  • Page 129

    Chapter 4. Installation 115 figure 4-5 windows 2000 server service pack 2 installation installing additional drivers after windows 2000 is installed, device manager will report a number of unknown devices, as shown in figure 4-6 on page 116. These unknown devices correspond to specific components as...

  • Page 130

    116 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 4-6 device manager post windows 2000 server installation. When the windows 2000 server installation has completed, you should perform the updates listed below. The order of these updates is not critical, but we recommend that you install t...

  • Page 131

    Chapter 4. Installation 117 3. Install the driver for the remote supervisor adapter. 4. Install the active pci device driver. 5. Update the s3 savage4 lt video controller driver. 6. If you have other devices installed, such as fastt fiber channel adapters, update or add the drivers for these. Follow...

  • Page 132

    118 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide once you enable hyper-threading, the performance tab in task manager will show twice the number of cpus installed as there are physical processors. Figure 4-8 shows the windows before and after enabling hyper-threading on a two-way x440. Figure 4...

  • Page 133

    Chapter 4. Installation 119 if the additional pci slots are not visible, confirm that the custom hal has been installed, as follows: a. Open device manager b. Expand the computer entry c. Right-click acpi multiprocessor node and select properties d. Click the driver tab the driver provider is listed...

  • Page 134

    120 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 3. Proceed with the installation as normal. Refer to documentation on the red hat linux cd or the following pdf: https://www.Redhat.Com/docs/manuals/advserver/rhlas-2.1-manual/pdf/r hl-ig-as-x86-en-21.Pdf when you have completed the installation,...

  • Page 135

    Chapter 4. Installation 121 2. Run the following commands to update additional patches to the summit kernel: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-e.3 patch -pl /src/redhat/sources/linux-2.4.9-summit.Patch 3. Copy new kernel config (kernel-2.4.9-i686-summit.Config) to .Config: cp -f configs/kernel-2.4.9-i686-summ...

  • Page 136

    122 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide known problems with netware are: netware 5.1 is currently not supported, but it should still install. See retain tip h176163 for details on a known shutdown problem: http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/qtechinfo/migr-43679.Html with netware 6.0, the server may...

  • Page 137

    Chapter 4. Installation 123 figure 4-10 network board installation instruction to install the network driver, follow the instructions: a. Select modify and press enter. B. Press insert to add the driver. C. Follow the instruction until the driver is installed and is loaded in the netware installer s...

  • Page 138

    124 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 4-11 shows the loaded broadcom gigabit driver 4. Select continue and continue the netware installation as per usual. Once the netware installation is complete, install the latest service pack. This can be done using the nwconfig utility. I...

  • Page 139

    Chapter 4. Installation 125 4. Start netware server and go to the netware console. Type load c:\ibmxsbd.Nlm wait until a message indicates that ibmxsbd is ready for operation. 5. Restart the server. 6. To verify the installation, load the novell configuration manager, ncmcon.Nlm. This will show the ...

  • Page 140

    126 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 4-13 shows that hot-plug is enabled adding support for the rxe-100 to add support for rxe-100, a new nbi.Nlm file must be obtained by going to http://support.Novell.Com/filefinder/ and searching for nbiup1.Exe. This file contains a new net...

  • Page 141

    Chapter 4. Installation 127 3. There are two nbi.Nlm files and one nbiup1.Txt file in nbiup1.Exe (one for nw5.1 in the nw51 directory and one for nw6.0 in the nw6 directory). Copy the new nbi.Nlm associated with netware 6 into the c:wserver directory. 4. Restart the server 5. To verify that the in...

  • Page 142

    128 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide delete the default .Psm (usually mps14.Psm) and insert the acpidrv.Psm (the selections will display when the insert key is pressed). This will enable hyper-threading from the start for this particular installation. If an overlay cd cannot be obta...

  • Page 143: Management

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 129 chapter 5. Management ibm director is the systems management software provided with the ibm ^ xseries servers. This chapter covers the three plug-ins to ibm director unique to ibm that are of particular relevance to the x440: 5.1, “active pci mana...

  • Page 144: 5.1  Active Pci Manager

    130 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 5.1 active pci manager active pci manager is used to plan the addition of pci and pci-x adapters to the x440 and rxe-100 expansion enclosures, to best use the bus architecture of the systems. It can also analyze existing adapter arrangements to d...

  • Page 145

    Chapter 5. Management 131 ibm active pci software version 5.0.2.0 or later. This software contains the following components: – ibm active pci filter driver – ibm active pci alert driver – ibm active pci alert service ibm active pci software and the user’s guide are available from: http://www.Pc.Ibm....

  • Page 146

    132 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 5.1.1 using active pci manager the active pci manager interface is shown in figure 5-3. The details of your system configuration are available in three ways by clicking the appropriate tab: slot view, figure 5-3 tree view, figure 5-5 on page 135 ...

  • Page 147

    Chapter 5. Management 133 first slot label, last slot label: the first and last slot labels in the server are identified. When the rxe-100 is selected, the slot labels are a1 through a6 and b1 through b6. The labels correspond to the names of the slots as printed on the chassis. I/o drawer: this val...

  • Page 148

    134 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide for information about the attributes, consult the online help. However, some explanation is warranted here: current speed, max slot speed: as described in 1.8, “pci subsystem” on page 23, the adapters installed in this slot and other slots in the...

  • Page 149

    Chapter 5. Management 135 the tree view, shown in figure 5-5, lets you look at all of the slots in the system at once, in a explorer-like tree view. Figure 5-5 x440 and rxe-100 tree view in figure 5-5, the x440 slot 2 is selected and the attributes of the slot and the adapter installed in it are sho...

  • Page 150

    136 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the table view, figure 5-6, provides a summary of all of the slot and adapter information in one frame. Figure 5-6 x440 and rxe-100 table view not visible to the left of the information shown is a column that shows the chassis that the slots are ...

  • Page 151

    Chapter 5. Management 137 the processing of adding an adapter depends on whether the adapter is on the list of known adapters or whether you have to specify the adapter’s characteristics. Adding a known adapter the process to add a known adapter, such as the ibm gigabit ethernet sx adapter, is as fo...

  • Page 152

    138 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide must be reset to run at the lower speed. Restarting the bus requires that the operating system be rebooted. With this checkbox unchecked, the wizard may suggest the adapter be added to a 133 mhz bus if it is the best slot, and will ask the user t...

  • Page 153

    Chapter 5. Management 139 4. Upon completion of the analysis, active pci manager recommends the best slot to insert the adapter (if one is available with the right criteria), as shown in figure 5-9 on page 139. In our case it was slot 3 in the x440. Figure 5-9 hot add adapter to slot 3 5. Click fini...

  • Page 154

    140 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the led on the slot itself will blink as does the graphic of the slot, as shown in figure 5-11. Figure 5-11 slot 3 with the led on 7. To hot add the adapter into the slot, open the cover on the x440 or rxe-100. Push the orange tab above the adapt...

  • Page 155

    Chapter 5. Management 141 9. After the adapter has been added, the slot view window is dynamically updated, as seen in figure 5-12. Figure 5-12 ibm gigabit ethernet adapter installed in slot 3 adding an unlisted adapter to add an adapter whose characteristics are not known to the wizard, such as the...

  • Page 156

    142 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-13 adapter identification screen there are two ways of specifying the characteristics of an unknown adapter: – manually select the attributes from the pull-down menus in the left pane in figure 5-13. – click the adapter keying button to ...

  • Page 157

    Chapter 5. Management 143 table 5-2 shows you the possible choices when you click adapter keying. As you click the button, both the graphic and the bus width and voltage pull-down menu entries change. Table 5-2 adapter attributes and associated graphics 2. Review the documentation that is included w...

  • Page 158

    144 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 3. Enter the remaining values into the pull-down menus. We enter our parameters and the following message is displayed: hotadd your adapter to slot 5, location in the ibm eserver xseries 440 4. Blink the slot as described in step 6 on page 139. 5...

  • Page 159

    Chapter 5. Management 145 figure 5-16 incorrectly arranged adapters to analyze the adapter configuration, click tools -> analyze. Once the analysis is complete, the optimization steps window appears, as shown in figure 5-17 on page 146. It includes three sections: observations — problems identified ...

  • Page 160

    146 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-17 performance analysis in the recommended actions, follow the instructions to move adapters. In our example, the recommendation is to move an adapter from slot 4 to slot 1. The steps we followed are as follows: 1. Click the link on the ...

  • Page 161

    Chapter 5. Management 147 figure 5-18 removing an adapter from slot 4 2. Stop the adapter in the operating system. Double-click the icon in the system tray. Figure 5-19 on page 148 appears. Tip: the two links in figure 5-17 merely show you which slot to insert the adapter into or remove the adapter ...

  • Page 162

    148 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-19 stop adapter use by the operating system 3. Select the adapter you want to stop and click stop. 4. Confirm that you want to stop the device by clicking ok. 5. Once the operating system confirms the adapter has been stopped, use the sl...

  • Page 163

    Chapter 5. Management 149 figure 5-20 hot eject successful 8. Close the adapter retainer on slot 4. The slot is then reported as empty, as shown in figure 5-21. Figure 5-21 slot 4 is empty indicators that the hot-eject was successful.

  • Page 164

    150 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 9. Back at the optimization steps window, shown in figure 5-17 on page 146, click the link to hot add the adapter. 10.The slot view appears with an arrow showing you which slot to insert the adapter into, as shown in figure 5-22. Figure 5-22 hot ...

  • Page 165

    Chapter 5. Management 151 hardware changes and that resources such as pci slots in an rxe-100 can be shared between the two partitions. System partition manager is an ibm director plug-in utility that ibm will be releasing with ibm director 4.1. The agent component will initially be supported on the...

  • Page 166

    152 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide connecting one rxe-100 with 12 slots to two different nodes, referred to as twin-tailing, is supported (see figure 3-10 on page 82). Although not supported on the x440, the maximum configuration that system partition manager supports is four node...

  • Page 167

    Chapter 5. Management 153 system partition manager-specific events can be used to generate alerts using ibm director event action plans. Actions will also include the ability to modify the configuration of complexes, restart partitions, and other activities. Figure 5-23 shows the ibm director consol...

  • Page 168

    154 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-24 partition assistant the tree frame in figure 5-24 shows the different nodes and external enclosures configured. The icons next to the external enclosure names indicate how they are allocated: indicates that the first (left or a) six p...

  • Page 169: 5.3  Process Control

    Chapter 5. Management 155 insert node — associates a node with a partition. Set primary node — determines which node will be the primary node. Boot — boots the partition. Power off — powers off the partition. Assign — writes the partition configuration to the nodes in a partition. Inserting a node a...

  • Page 170

    156 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide the three main types of rules in process control are shown in figure 5-25. They are: process alias rules process execution rules process group execution rules figure 5-25 process control rule types 5.3.1 process alias rules windows 2000 uses the ...

  • Page 171

    Chapter 5. Management 157 it is, however, possible to differentiate two or more processes with the same image name by creating a process alias rule, if they are executed from different directories. Aliases are defined via the use of alias rules. Creating a process alias rule in process control consi...

  • Page 172

    158 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-28 assigning a process alias process control identifies one or many processes based on one of the three following character-matching techniques. Select the method you want to use. Subdirectory name identifies processes based on a directo...

  • Page 173

    Chapter 5. Management 159 figure 5-29 assigning an alias to all processes from the guildftpd directory once the two alias rules have been created, they are listed as shown in figure 5-30. Figure 5-30 list of process alias rules.

  • Page 174

    160 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 5.3.2 process execution rules now that the processes have been identified by aliases through the use of process alias rules, the next step is to define process execution rules. First identify the process, using the aliases you assigned in the pre...

  • Page 175

    Chapter 5. Management 161 figure 5-32 creating a group process alias we recommend creating a process group, even for one process. Here we are naming a new process group web services by typing in its name. You can add processes to an existing group by selecting it from the pull-down menu. Click next....

  • Page 176

    162 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-33 selecting the process group properties the properties window for the group appears (figure 5-34). Figure 5-34 process group general properties from the general tab, we are able to see the process count limit. Here we have set it to 10...

  • Page 177

    Chapter 5. Management 163 group of web services. This will prevent the overuse of these services and therefore any impact to other processes running on this server. The next tab is the affinity tab, shown in figure 5-35. Figure 5-35 processor affinity assigning processor affinity means that the proc...

  • Page 178

    164 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-36 process group priority group process priority has the effect of assigning the same process priority to every process in the group. This overrides the priority setting assigned by the application vendor, and ensures that every process ...

  • Page 179

    Chapter 5. Management 165 figure 5-37 configuring task manager to show base priority in all likelihood, the processes you are interested in have a base priority of normal, like most of the ones shown in figure 5-38. Figure 5-38 priorities of running processes process group priority is rather a coars...

  • Page 180

    166 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-39 process scheduling class the process scheduling class determines how much cpu time processes with the same priority are allocated. The next tab in the properties window is the memory tab, as shown in figure 5-40 on page 167..

  • Page 181

    Chapter 5. Management 167 figure 5-40 memory limits for processes in groups this tab lets you set three parameters, which are configured in increments of 1,024 kb: the first one configures working set limits (minimum and maximum). The working set is the physical memory allocated to the process group...

  • Page 182

    168 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-41 per process and group time limits there are two options: the first is to limit the amount of time a process is allowed to run, and the second is the amount of time the entire group can use. This is not elapsed time, but the time the p...

  • Page 183

    Chapter 5. Management 169 figure 5-42 selecting process control as the event type in ibm director further details about creating event action plans in ibm director can be found in several sources, such as the redbook implementing ibm director management solutions, sg24-6188. The last tab in the proc...

  • Page 184

    170 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-43 process control advanced controls the options in this tab are as follows: end process group when no processes in the group this is useful to reset the counters for batch processes that are time limited. Deselecting this option allows ...

  • Page 185

    Chapter 5. Management 171 figure 5-44 performance monitor counter die on unhandled exceptions this option suppresses any windows that may pop up as a result of a process failing, which hopefully facilitates the full completion of the process and the release of committed resources after a process fai...

  • Page 186

    172 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide figure 5-45 process control scan interval the other configurable entry, request timeout interval, is used to determine how long the service will wait for commands from a remote server. If the timeout value is exceeded, control will pass back to t...

  • Page 187: Abbreviations And Acronyms

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 173 ac alternating current acpi advanced control and power interface apic advanced programmable interrupt controller asm advanced system management asr automatic server restart ats advanced technical support basp broadcom advanced server program bi bu...

  • Page 188

    174 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide nc north carolina nema national electrical manufacturers association nlb network load balancing ns not set numa non-uniform memory access olap online analytical processing os operating system pae physical address extension pci peripheral componen...

  • Page 189: Related Publications

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 175 related publications the publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable for a more detailed discussion of the topics covered in this redbook. Ibm redbooks for information on ordering these publications, see “how to get ib...

  • Page 190

    176 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 176 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/qtechinfo/migr-42328.Html ibm ^ xseries 440 installation guide in pdf format http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/qtechinfo/migr-42423.Html x440 hot-plug driver for netware http://www.P...

  • Page 191

    Related publications 177 http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/ww/eserver/xseries/vmware.Html information about vmware on xseries http://www.Pc.Ibm.Com/ww/eserver/xseries/windows/datacenter.Html information about the datacenter server offerings from ibm intel sites http://www.Intel.Com/design/xeon/prodbref informat...

  • Page 192: How To Get Ibm Redbooks

    178 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide 178 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide how to get ibm redbooks you can order hardcopy redbooks, as well as view, download, or search for redbooks at the following web site: ibm.Com/redbooks you can also download additional material...

  • Page 193: Index

    © copyright ibm corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 179 index numerics 03k9309, asm interconnect cable kit 78 10k3661, belkin usb to serial adapter 83 20-stage pipeline 16 220 v power 103 22p5298, ibm usb serial/parallel adapter 83 22p6801, netxtreme 1000 t ethernet adapter 73 22p7801, netxtreme 1000 s...

  • Page 194

    180 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide advanced dynamic execution 16, 45 affinity 163 air flow, rack 103 application integration 51 application scalability 100 availability 59 b baan 38–39 backup solutions 89 bi 39 bios hyper-threading 109 memory mirroring 67, 108 updates 108 block di...

  • Page 195

    Index 181 f fans 24–25 fault tolerance 67 features 1, 43 fibre channel storage options 85 foster 12–13, 64 front panel 25 frontside bus 9, 13 g gallatin 12–13, 64 smp expansion module support 17 gigabit ethernet 23, 72 h hal 112 hardware compatibility list 111 hardware configuration 12 hardware part...

  • Page 196

    182 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide n navision 38 nbi.Nlm 122 netbay racks 102 netburst architecture 9 netware 29, 91, 97, 121–128 active pci driver 122, 124 broadcom driver 122 bus interface driver 122 hyper-threading support 127 remote supervisor adapter 122 rxe-100 support 126 n...

  • Page 197

    Index 183 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 r...

  • Page 198

    184 ibm ^ xseries 440 planning and installation guide solution assurance review (sar) 104 sql server 37, 40 standard memory 3 static partitioning 50 storage options 83 summit chipset 7 supply chain management 38 support memory configurations 66 operating systems 28, 90 suse 29, 91, 97 system availab...

  • Page 199

    (0 .2 ”sp in e) 0. 1 7 ” >0 .47 3 ” 90 >2 49 pa ge s ibm ^ x s er ies 440 plann ing and inst allat ion g u ide.

  • Page 202: Ibm

    ® sg24-6196-00 isbn 0738427330 international technical support organization building technical information based on practical experience ibm redbooks are developed by the ibm international technical support organization. Experts from ibm, customers and partners from around the world create timely te...