IBM 520Q - Manual

IBM 520Q

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – International Technical Support Organization
  • Page 5 – iii; Contents
  • Page 6 – iv; IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Technical Over view and Introduction
  • Page 9 – vii; Notices
  • Page 10 – viii; Trademarks; Eserver
  • Page 11 – ix; Preface; Clients; The team that wrote this Redpaper; Sserver
  • Page 12 – The project that produced this document was managed by:; Become a published author; Your comments are important to us!
  • Page 13 – xi; Mail your comments to:
  • Page 14 – xii
  • Page 15 – General description; or
  • Page 17 – System specifications; Table 1-1 IBM System p5 520 and IBM System p5 520Q specifications; Physical package; and Figure 1-1 on page 4 shows the system.; Table 1-2 Physical attributes of the deskside model; Description
  • Page 19 – Table 1-3 Physical attributes of the rack-mount model; Dimension
  • Page 20 – Minimum and optional features
  • Page 21 – Feature code
  • Page 22 – diag; command, are not available on the; GB ULTRA320 10 K rpm SCSI hot-swappable disk drive
  • Page 23 – Chapter 1. General description; The drawer has the following attributes:
  • Page 24 – Hardware Management Console models; Table 1-7 Supported HMC models; IBM 7310 Model C05 Deskside Hardware Management Console
  • Page 25 – Express Product Offerings; Express Product Offerings requirements; The system must have at least two disk drives of at least 73.4 GB each.; Configurator starting points for Express Product Offerings
  • Page 26 – Feature code description
  • Page 28 – Optional Rear Door Heat eXchanger (FC 6858); One year, limited warranty; Physical specifications; The physical specifications are:; Client responsibilities; The client responsibilities are:
  • Page 29 – The CFReport from eConfig must be submitted to the following site:
  • Page 30 – The ac power distribution unit and rack content; Name; EXP24 Disk Enclosure
  • Page 31 – select Map of pSeries books to the information center; The Universal PDUs are compatible with previous models.; Figure 1-4 PDU placement and PDU view
  • Page 32 – IBM 7212 Model 103 IBM TotalStorage storage device enclosure; Only servers
  • Page 33 – Flat panel display options
  • Page 34 – The 1x8 Console Switch supports the following monitors:
  • Page 35 – supported on the switch.; Hardware Management Console 7310 Model CR3
  • Page 40 – Performance gains through faster clock rates
  • Page 41 – Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview; Processor and cache
  • Page 44 – Memory subsystem; pmcycles
  • Page 45 – II
  • Page 46 – Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False; Figure 2-8 IBM memory certification label
  • Page 47 – Processor Type
  • Page 48 – stands for; extended; , is an enhanced PCI bus, delivering a bandwidth of; Memory
  • Page 50 – These are different internal RAID options that you can consider:
  • Page 51 – Hardware; IBM iSCSI adapters; Table 2-6 provides the orderable iSCSI adapters.; Table 2-6 Available iSCSI adapters; Gigabit iSCSI TOE PCI-X on optical media adapter; Short
  • Page 52 – IBM iSCSI software Host Support Kit
  • Page 53 – For more information about Topspin Server Switch, see:
  • Page 54 – If an HMC is connected, a; virtual serial console; is provided by the HMC (logical device vsa0
  • Page 55 – Table 2-9 Ethernet LED descriptions; Internal storage; Table 2-10 Available optical and tape drives; LED
  • Page 56 – assigns the name; Table 2-11 Available hot-swappable disk drives; Hot-swappable disks and Linux
  • Page 58 – Figure shows how you could connect four I/O drawers to one system.
  • Page 59 – Figure shows SPCN cabling examples.
  • Page 60 – External disk subsystems; IBM TotalStorage EXP24 Expandable Storage
  • Page 61 – rootvg; For further information about ESS, refer to the following Web site:
  • Page 62 – Logical partitioning; Operating system support for dynamic LPAR; Table 2-12 Operating system supported function; You can also consult the following IBM Redbooks:; Processor
  • Page 63 – Virtual SCSI; lparstat
  • Page 64 – client; partitions. The Virtual I/O Server is available with the optional; Virtual Ethernet; Virtual Ethernet has the following major features:
  • Page 65 – Advanced POWER Virtualization feature; entitlement
  • Page 66 – The meaning of the term; physical; in this section is a; processor core; was introduced. The operating system (AIX 5L or; smtctl; virtual processors; Some additional information related to the virtual processors:
  • Page 67 – uncapped; Virtual processor recommendations
  • Page 69 – The Virtual I/O Server can be installed by:; installios; Linux; POWER Hypervisor; HMC; POWER5 Partitioning
  • Page 70 – Shared Ethernet adapter; For a more detailed discussion about virtual networking, see:; The Virtual I/O Server provides mapping between; backing devices; (physical devices or logical; mkvdev; command. For syntax and
  • Page 71 – topas; Integrated Virtualization Manager
  • Page 73 – create; Figure 2-16 IVM principles; Operating system support for advanced virtualization
  • Page 74 – Hardware Management Console; Virtual Storage
  • Page 75 – Functions performed by the HMC include:
  • Page 77 – Sample systems that you can customize to fit your needs
  • Page 78 – Operating system support; The Web page provides information about how to obtain the CD-ROM.; command is also available, which helps the; suma; ESD has the following requirements:; Software support for new features in the POWER5+ processor
  • Page 79 – XCOFF
  • Page 80 – Specially priced Linux subscriptions; Refer to the following Web site for Red Hat information:; Service information
  • Page 81 – Blue; The; optional
  • Page 82 – rack until the rails are fully extended and locked:
  • Page 83 – Primary control panel functions
  • Page 84 – Function 30 – CEC SP IP address and location; Table 2-14 CEC SP IP address and location; Temporary and permanent firmware sides; side. We recommend that you start and run; activated level; , sometimes referred to as; Press Enter to display the selected IP address.
  • Page 85 – The following examples are the output of the; lsmcode; command for AIX 5L and Linux,; System firmware download Web site; For the system firmware download Web site, go to:; Note: The following points are of special interest:
  • Page 86 – Receive server firmware fixes using an HMC; The HMC or server is connected to the Internet.; Receive server firmware fixes without an HMC; To do this, complete the following tasks:
  • Page 87 – Hardware management user interfaces; Advanced System Management Interface; Note: To view existing levels of server firmware using the
  • Page 88 – network configuration menu; Ensure that the HMC is set up and configured.; Expand Service Applications and click Service Focal Point.; System Management Services; To start System Management Services, perform the following steps:
  • Page 89 – keyboard; Local HMC; Open Firmware
  • Page 91 – RAS and manageability
  • Page 92 – Most firmware updates allow the system to remain operational.
  • Page 93 – diagela; Mutual surveillance; Disk
  • Page 94 – Bit steering; server operational; Memory scrubbing; to help prevent soft-error memory faults; Memory reliability, fault tolerance, and integrity; presence of a complete chip failure (; Chipkill recovery; ). Memory scrubbing is the process of reading
  • Page 95 – Chapter 3. RAS and manageability; Dynamic or persistent deallocation; CPU Guard; cpuguard enable CPU Guard True
  • Page 96 – Persistent deallocation functions include:; Error indication and LED indicators
  • Page 97 – System attention LED
  • Page 98 – Figure 3-2 shows an example of the ASMI accessed from a Web browser.; Figure 3-2 Advanced System Management main menu
  • Page 99 – command to stop all activity
  • Page 100 – Three principal ways of communication are possible:; Figure 3-3 Service Agent and possible connections to IBM; Service Agent provides these additional services:
  • Page 101 – You can download the latest version of Service Agent at:; Service Focal Point; IBM System p5 firmware maintenance; side of system firmware. For additional discussion; deferred
  • Page 102 – An installation is disruptive if:; Cluster solution; Simplified use of IT resources
  • Page 105 – Related publications; IBM Redbooks
  • Page 106 – IBM; Online resources
  • Page 107 – How to get IBM Redbooks; IBM Support and downloads
  • Page 110 – Technical Overview and Introduction; Back cover
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IBM System p5 520 and 520Q

Technical Overview and Introduction

Giuliano Anselmi

Charlie Cler

Carlo Costantini

Bernard Filhol

SahngShin Kim

Gregor Linzmeier

Ondrej Plachy

Finer system granulation using Micro-Partitioning
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Support for versions of AIX 5L and
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Summary

Page 3 - International Technical Support Organization

International Technical Support Organization IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Technical Overview and Introduction September 2006

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. iii Contents Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiTrademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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