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Contents
  1. front cover
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Table Of Contents
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Chapter 1. Technical overview
  8. IBM eX4-based servers
  9. x3950 M2: scalable hardware components
  10. Model numbers and scalable upgrade options
  11. Finding country-specific model information
  12. x3950 M2 model information
  13. Multinode capabilities
  14. x3950 M2 Windows Datacenter models
  15. IBM Datacenter Unlimited Virtualization offering
  16. Upgrading to Datacenter Edition
  17. Datacenter multinode configurations
  18. Key features of VMware ESXi
  19. VMware ESXi on x3850 M2
  20. Comparing ESXi to other VI3 editions
  21. VMware ESXi V3.5 licensing
  22. Support for applications running on VMware ESX and ESXi
  23. IBM fourth generation XA-64e chipset
  24. Hurricane 4
  25. XceL4v dynamic server cache
  26. Ranks
  27. Processors
  28. Memory subsystem
  29. SAS controller and ports
  30. PCI Express subsystem
  31. Networking
  32. Redundancy features
  33. Systems management features
  34. BMC service processor
  35. Remote Supervisor Adapter II
  36. Active Energy Manager
  37. Chapter 2. Product positioning
  38. Focus market segments and target applications
  39. Positioning the IBM x3950 M2 and x3850 M2
  40. IBM BladeCenter and iDataPlex
  41. Comparing x3850 M2 to x3850
  42. Comparing x3950 M2 to x3950
  43. System scalability
  44. Operating system scalability
  45. Scaling VMware ESX
  46. Scaling Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  47. Scaling Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V
  48. Scaling Linux server operating systems
  49. Application scalability
  50. Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  51. Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  52. Scale-up or scale-out
  53. Scale-out
  54. Chapter 3. Hardware configuration
  55. Processor subsystem
  56. Processor options
  57. Installation of processor options
  58. Processor (CPU) configuration options
  59. Memory options
  60. Memory card
  61. Memory mirroring
  62. Hot-swap memory
  63. Hot-add memory
  64. Memory configuration in BIOS
  65. Internal drive options and RAID controllers
  66. SAS disk drive options
  67. ServeRAID-MR10k RAID controller
  68. ServeRAID-MR10M SAS/SATA II controller
  69. SAS expansion enclosure (unit)
  70. Updating the SAS storage controllers
  71. Configuring RAID volumes
  72. Starting the ServeRAID-MR10k controller WebBIOS
  73. Working with LSI MegaRAID controller WebBIOS
  74. PCI Express options
  75. PCI adapter installation order
  76. PCI Express device-related information in the BIOS
  77. Supported PCI Express adapter options
  78. Chapter 4. Multinode hardware configurations
  79. Introduction and terminology
  80. Understanding scalability
  81. Complex Descriptor contents
  82. Prerequisites to create a multinode complex
  83. Upgrading an x3850 M2 to an x3950 M2
  84. Configuring for a LAN connection
  85. Updating the code levels, firmware
  86. Cabling of multinode configurations
  87. Two-node configuration
  88. Three-node configuration
  89. Four-node configuration
  90. Configuring partitions
  91. First steps in configuring the partition
  92. Creating partitions
  93. Working with partitions
  94. Behaviors of scalability configurations
  95. Observations with scalability configurations
  96. Problems with merging if prerequisites were not met
  97. Known problems
  98. Chapter 5. Installation
  99. Updating firmware and BIOS
  100. Downloading the firmware
  101. system bios
  102. Confirming BIOS settings
  103. Supported operating systems
  104. VMware ESX operating systems
  105. Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems
  106. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems
  107. Solaris operating systems
  108. Installing the operating system
  109. Installing VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable
  110. Installing VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1
  111. Installing Windows Server 2003
  112. Installing Windows Server 2008
  113. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1
  114. Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
  115. Chapter 6. Management
  116. BMC configuration options
  117. BMC connectivity
  118. Event Log
  119. User Account Settings menus
  120. BMC monitoring features
  121. BMC firmware update
  122. Installing the BMC device drivers
  123. Ports used by the BMC
  124. RSA II connectivity
  125. Web interface
  126. Remote console and media
  127. Updating firmware
  128. Implementing the RSA II in the operating system
  129. TCP/UDP ports used by the RSA II
  130. MIB files
  131. Use of IBM Director with VMware ESX
  132. Active Energy Manager terminology
  133. Active Energy Manager components
  134. Active Energy Manager tasks
  135. Active Energy Manager 3.1 functions
  136. IBM Director: Implementation of servers
  137. Integrating x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 into IBM Director
  138. Level 0: Implementation by service processors
  139. Level 1: Implementation by the IBM Director Core Services
  140. LSI MegaRAID Provider
  141. Level 2: Implementation by the IBM Director agent
  142. System management with VMware ESXi 3.5
  143. Power management
  144. Power consumption measurement and capping
  145. Key features
  146. Availability and flexibility of Enterprise PDUs
  147. Comparing PDU and intelligent PDU
  148. Assembling of intelligent PDU
  149. Intelligent PDU power management Web interface
  150. DSA Preboot
  151. Updating DSA Preboot
  152. Working with the command line interface
  153. Working with the graphical user interface (GUI)
  154. Scalability partition management
  155. Abbreviations and acronyms
  156. Related publications
  157. Online resources
  158. How to get Redbooks
  159. Index
  160. back cover
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