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vi IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide

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© 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...

x IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide recent books inclu de 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 fo...

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, RaleighKenny Bain, EMEA Advanced Technical Suppor t, GreenockPatrick de Broux, IT Consultant, ATS Product Introduc...

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 Chandrasekh...

© 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 par t of the Enterprise X-Architecture strategy. The x440 p...

2 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 򐂰 Memor y 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 slot...

Chapter 1. Technical description 3 products. Additional testing per tains 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 capab...

6 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 1.2 System partitioning Par titioning is the ability to divide a system to suppor t multiple operating system images simultaneously. The benefits of system par titioning include: 򐂰 Hardware consolidation 򐂰 Software migration and coexistence 򐂰 Versi...

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

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...

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...

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 car tridge design of the Pentium III Xeon processors. This smaller form factor means t...

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...

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 Xeo...

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...

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 memor y 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 t...

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...

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...

Chapter 1. Technical description 21 򐂰 Memor y mirroring Memor y mirroring is roughly equivalent to RAID-1 in disk arrays, in that memor y is divided in two por ts 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 memor y mirr...

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. Cer tain restrictions exist with respect to placement and size of memory DIMMs when memory mirroring is enabled. These are discussed in “Memor y mirroring” on...

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 o...

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...

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 memor y mirroring, as described in 1.7, “System memory”...

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 fur ther investigation, there are Light Path Diagnostics LEDs visible thr...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 suppor ted, a multi...

Chapter 1. Technical description 31 administrator to configure a specific server (while it is offline) from a remote system, prior to star ting the operating system. See 5.2, “System Par tition Manager” on page 150 for more information. 򐂰 Active PCI Manager — Active PCI Manager helps optimize I/O pe...

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...

© 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 x4...

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 con...

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 par titioning with four-way configurations can produce a one-box cluster solution for small-to-medium-sized businesse...

38 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 2.1.2 Enterprise applications Because enter prise 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. 򐂰 Enter prise Resource ...

Chapter 2. Positioning 39 application ser ver 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...

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...

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...

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...

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. – Improv...

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 ...

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 add...

Chapter 2. Positioning 49 2.3 The benefits of system partitioning System partitioning is virtualization of system resources, including processor, memor y, 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 th...

50 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Two types of system partitioning are: 򐂰 Physical par titioning With physical par titioning, a single server consisting of two nodes, such as the x440, can run multiple instances of an operating system in separate par titions. It can also run multi...

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 loa...

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, ser vers are...

Chapter 2. Positioning 53 to a single server room, or moving 200 ser vers 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...

54 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide With its Enterprise X-Architecture enabled features, the x440 ser ver offers flexibility, availability, and scalability to handle customer requirements for consolidating distributed workloads onto a single powerful and highly available platform to...

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,...

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 under taking, but...

58 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide A single point of control allows enterprises to: – Reduce or eliminate depar tment operational costs– Reduce some software licenses– Reduce number of systems, disk storage costs– Reduce maintenance charges– Avoid multiple copies of the same applic...

Chapter 2. Positioning 59 򐂰 Manageability and availability Server consolidation can help you improve manageability and availability of IT systems in the following ways: – Enter prise management - Integrated operations allows for consistent management of all facilities and IT services. – Consistent p...

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...

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). S...

© 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 ...

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...

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 inst...

Chapter 3. Planning 67 Memory mirroring As discussed in 1.7, “System memory” on page 19, memory mirroring is suppor ted by the x440 for increased fault tolerance and high levels of availability. Key configuration rules relating to memory mirroring: 򐂰 Memor y mirroring must be enabled in the BIOS (it...

68 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 򐂰 When installing DIMMs, try to evenly divide the amount of RAM available between the two por ts. 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...

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 ...

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 M...

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 suppor ted. 򐂰 The PCI slots supports 3.3 V adapters ...

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 de...

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...

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 Super visor Adapter connectivity 򐂰 RXE-100 connectivity 򐂰 Serial connectivity We discuss each ...

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...

Chapter 3. Planning 77 򐂰 In 16-way configurations, the Ethernet por t 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 star tup and shutdown. We recommend either of the following connections: – ...

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 por t, which supports systems management functions through null modem or modem connections. ...

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 u...

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...

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...

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) Por t (see Figure 3-9 on page 81). The 8 m interconnect management cable is...

84 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide 15,000 RPM and the converged tray design are suppor ted. To configure RAID-1, a Ser veRAID 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...

Chapter 3. Planning 85 򐂰 ServeRAID-4Lx features one Ultra160 SCSI channel, 32 MB of ECC cache memor y, and an Intel i80303 processor. Up to 14 Ultra160 and Ultra2 SCSI devices are suppor ted. Each ServeRAID adapter supports up to 14 drives (and 160 MB per second throughput) per channel (for an aggre...

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 h...

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...

88 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) ESS provides integrated caching and RAID suppor t for the attached disk devices. ESS can be configured in a variety of ways to provide scalability in capacity and performance. One ESS can suppor t in excess of 28 TB...

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 s...

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 par titioning and c...

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...

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. ...

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: 򐂰 Suppor t for 32 processors 򐂰 Suppor ts up to 32 GB of memory 򐂰 Four node cluster support 򐂰 Supp...

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 that is already certified for use with Datace...

98 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide The xSeries development team, the IBM Linux Technology Center, and other par ts of IBM are working with the Linux community, Red Hat, SuSE, and other Linux alliance partners to develop advanced Enter prise X-Architecture features in upcoming relea...

Chapter 3. Planning 99 Dynamic logical par titioning involves: 򐂰 Par titioning server resources The ESX Server acts as the host operating system, provides dynamic logical par titions to hold other operating systems, and vir tualizes most system resources, including processors, memory, network capaci...

100 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide Currently ESX Server does not support Hyper-Threading technology. For suppor t information including suppor ted ser vers, see: http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/eserver/xseries/vmware.html For more information on VMware, refer to the redbook Server Consol...

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...

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 suppor ted in non-enter prise racks, it is not recommended, since cable management then...

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...

Chapter 3. Planning 105 – Process dictates expert personnel's par ticipation– 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 h...

© 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 򐂰...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 Su...

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 Ser ver or Advanced Server, ensure that BIOS and firmware levels have been updated to the latest levels. Refer to “Updating BIOS and firmwa...

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...

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...

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 repor t a number of unknown devices, as shown in Figure 4-6 on page 116. These unknown devices correspond to specific components a...

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...

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...

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...

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 Managerb. Expand the Computer entry c. Right-click ACPI Multiprocessor Node and select Proper tiesd. Click the Driver tab The Driver Provider is listed ...

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/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-21.pdf When you have completed the installation, ...

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.3patch -pl </usr/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-i6...

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...

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...

Chapter 4. Installation 125 4. Star t 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...

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 suppor t 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 Ne...

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:\NWSERVER directory. 4. Restart the server 5. To verify that the in...

128 IBM ^ xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide delete the default .PSM (usually MPS14.PSM) and inser t the ACPIDRV.PSM (the selections will display when the Insert key is pressed). This will enable Hyper-Threading from the star t for this par ticular installation. If an Overlay CD cannot be o...

© 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 par ticular relevance to the x440: 򐂰 5.1, “Active PCI M...

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...

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....

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 ...

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 t...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 identi...

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 ...

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 inser t the adapter into or remove the adapter...

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...

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...

Chapter 5. Management 151 hardware changes and that resources such as PCI slots in an RXE-100 can be shared between the two par titions. System Par tition 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 t...

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 Par tition Manager suppor ts is four no...

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...

Chapter 5. Management 155 򐂰 Insert Node — Associates a node with a par tition. 򐂰 Set Primary Node — Determines which node will be the primary node. 򐂰 Boot — Boots the par tition. 򐂰 Power Off — Powers off the partition. 򐂰 Assign — Writes the par tition configuration to the nodes in a partition. Inser...

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 use...

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 direc...

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....

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...

Chapter 5. Management 169 Figure 5-42 Selecting Process Control as the event type in IBM Director Fur ther 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 P...

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 allow...

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 f...

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...

© 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...

© 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...

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 In...

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...

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2002. All rights reserved. 179 Index Numerics 03K9309, ASM Interconnect Cable Kit 7810K3661, Belkin USB to Serial Adapter 8320-stage pipeline 16220 V power 10322P5298, IBM USB Serial/Parallel Adapter 8322P6801, NetXtreme 1000 T Ethernet adapter 7322P7801, NetXtreme 1000 SX Fibe...

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