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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, which are key
requirements of enterprise applications. This configuration requires an
external storage enclosure or SAN, depending on the size of the database,
which is driven by the number of users.

2.2 Why choose the x440

There are some good reasons to choose the x440 as your mission-critical Intel
platform. In this section we describe the major benefits of x440.

2.2.1 IBM XA-32 chipset

The IBM XA-32 chipset contains advanced core logic, which determines how the
various parts of a system (microprocessors, system cache, main memory, I/O,
etc.) interact.

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Summary of Contents for 8687 - Eserver xSeries 440

Page 1: ...ing 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...

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Page 3: ...IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide October 2002 International Technical Support Organization SG24 6196 00...

Page 4: ...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 machine type 8687 Not...

Page 5: ...ache 19 1 7 System memory 19 1 8 PCI subsystem 23 1 9 Redundancy 24 1 10 Light Path Diagnostics 25 1 11 Remote Supervisor Adapter 27 1 12 Operating system support 28 1 13 IBM Director 30 Chapter 2 Pos...

Page 6: ...1 xSeries storage solutions 84 3 3 2 Disk subsystem performance 88 3 3 3 Tape backup 89 3 4 Server partitioning and consolidation 90 3 5 Operating system considerations 90 3 5 1 Windows 2000 Datacent...

Page 7: ...tive PCI Manager 130 5 1 1 Using Active PCI Manager 132 5 1 2 Adding adapters to the system 136 5 1 3 Analyzing an existing configuration 144 5 2 System Partition Manager 150 5 3 Process Control 155 5...

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Page 9: ...in this publication at any time without notice Any references in this information to non IBM Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those Web s...

Page 10: ...nited States other countries or both Domino Lotus Notes The following terms are trademarks of other companies ActionMedia LANDesk MMX Pentium and ProShare are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the Un...

Page 11: ...powerful system Chapter 3 Planning describes the aspects of planning to purchase and planning to install the x440 It covers such topics as configuration operating system specifics scalability and phy...

Page 12: ...rosoft Certified Cluster Specialist Novell MCNE Citrix CCA and an IBM Certified Expert for xSeries Duncan Furniss is an Advisory IT Specialist for IBM Canada and is the senior xSeries product speciali...

Page 13: ...ericas Advanced Technical Support Dallas Dottie Gardner Technical Project Manager Information Development Raleigh Roger Hellman xSeries Global Product Marketing Manager Raleigh Ron Humphrey Technical...

Page 14: ...Your efforts will help increase product acceptance and customer satisfaction As a bonus you ll develop a network of contacts in IBM development labs and increase your productivity and marketability F...

Page 15: ...es of the x440 Two way Intel Xeon processor MP models upgradable to four way and eight way Two way Intel Xeon processor DP models upgradable to four way Xeon DP or four way and beyond Xeon MP Ability...

Page 16: ...ility from two way up to 16 way systems using scalable enterprise nodes the x440s being each of those nodes and optionally one or more external remote I O enclosures Each scalable enterprise node cont...

Page 17: ...s only support processor configurations of two or four processors but can be upgraded to eight Xeon MP processors if desired Figure 1 1 on page 4 shows the available single node configurations and the...

Page 18: ...0 nodes as shown in Figure 1 2 on page 5 This will be available in November 2002 A single 12 way system comprised of an eight way and a four way x440 as shown in Figure 1 3 on page 5 This will be avai...

Page 19: ...Each xSeries 440 has Eight CPUs 4 64 GB memory RXE 100 6 PCI X slots 12 PCI X slots RXE expansion connections SMP expansion connections x440 node 1 Four CPUs 2 32 GB memory SMP expansion connections...

Page 20: ...per processor without shutting down and restarting the hardware and software VMware ESX Server V1 5 supports one to eight partitions per CPU up to a maximum total of 64 partitions For example in an ei...

Page 21: ...y IBM Director See 5 2 System Partition Manager on page 150 for details 1 3 IBM XA 32 chipset The IBM XA 32 chipset is the product name describing the chipset developed under the code name Summit and...

Page 22: ...ansion Module or four CPUs in two SMP Expansion Modules Tip The terms central electronics complex CEC and SMP Expansion Module are used interchangeably in relation to the x440 We use SMP Expansion Mod...

Page 23: ...o 32 GB can be installed using all 16 DIMM sockets The memory is four way interleaved so that the memory subsystem can supply data fast enough to match the throughput of the CPUs Four way interleaving...

Page 24: ...nd Figure 1 5 eight way The RXE 100 provides up to an additional 12 PCI X slots When the second SMP Expansion Module is installed to form an eight way system Figure 1 5 the second RXE port labeled RXE...

Page 25: ...Figure 1 7 on page 12 SDRAM 32 MB L4 cache CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 CPU 4 SDRAM SDRAM SDRAM PCI bridge SDRAM 32 MB L4 cache CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 CPU 4 SDRAM SDRAM SDRAM Memory controller PCI bridge Memory contr...

Page 26: ...Module Up to four processors are supported in the standard module and with the addition of a second SMP Expansion Module up to eight processors can be installed in an x440 The x440 entry level system...

Page 27: ...level 1 cache 12 KB in size is closest to the processor and is used to store micro operations that is decoded executable machine instructions and serves those to the processor at rated speed This add...

Page 28: ...enables a single physical processor to execute two separate code streams threads concurrently To the operating system a processor with Hyper Threading appears as two logical processors each of which...

Page 29: ...oth paths busy The following performance gains are likely Two physical processors 15 25 performance gain Four physical processors 1 13 gain Eight physical processors 0 5 gain Tests have found that sof...

Page 30: ...20 faster than 900 MHz 2 MB L2 Xeon 1 6 GHz Xeon Processor MP 1 MB L3 15 35 faster than 900 MHz 2 MB L2 Xeon The next generations of operating systems will likely improve performance of the MP proces...

Page 31: ...processors and VRMs and is used to upgrade a two way Xeon DP x440 to a four way configuration 71P7919 is also compatible with Xeon MP processors If you wish to upgrade your Xeon DP based x440 to use...

Page 32: ...throughput beyond that of one connection and provides load balancing The third scalability port is not used in this single node eight way configuration Each SMP Expansion Module is also equipped with...

Page 33: ...mented as four PC133 ECC SDRAM DIMMs four 512 MB or four 1 GB DIMMs There are 16 DIMM sockets two ports of eight in each of the two SMP Expansion Modules for a total of 32 sockets Using 2 GB DIMMs thi...

Page 34: ...on with each other but they do not require memory mirroring as described below to be enabled to work properly When a bit error is detected memory scrubbing determines if the error is recoverable or no...

Page 35: ...o two ports When memory mirroring is enabled see 4 1 2 Enabling memory mirroring on page 108 the data that is written to memory is stored in two locations One copy is kept in the port 1 DIMMs while a...

Page 36: ...and continue working as usual Chipkill support is provided in the memory controller and implemented using standard ECC DIMMs so it is transparent to the operating system In addition to maintain the h...

Page 37: ...rnet controller integrated standard in the system The x440 includes a single port Broadcom BCM5700 10 100 1000 Base T MAC Media Access Controller on a PCI 64 bit 66 MHz bus The BCM5700 supports full a...

Page 38: ...having to open the system panels In the event of a fan failure the other fan will speed up to continue to provide adequate cooling until the fan can be hot swapped by the IT administrator The other t...

Page 39: ...panel has been added to the front of the x440 This panel can be ejected from the server to view all Light Path Diagnostics monitored server subsystems In the event that maintenance is then required t...

Page 40: ...system error LED into remind mode which means it flashes briefly every 2 seconds By pressing the button you acknowledge the failure but indicate that you will not take immediate action If a new failur...

Page 41: ...rol Windows NT and 2000 blue screen capture Dedicated 10 100 Ethernet access port ASM interconnect bus for connection to other service processors Serial dial in out E mail pager and SNMP alerting Even...

Page 42: ...e x440 is optimized for numerous operating system and application solutions Table 1 3 on page 29 lists the supported operating systems for the x440 For the latest operating system support information...

Page 43: ...e RETAIN tip H176163 for details on a known shutdown problem http www pc ibm com qtechinfo MIGR 43679 html Description Release SMP support1 Hyper Threading support Windows 2000 Server SP2 3 Supports u...

Page 44: ...platforms in the Intel environment and support a variety of operating systems IBM Director 3 1 supports IBM Enterprise X Architecture capabilities including Remote I O via the IBM RXE 100 Remote Expa...

Page 45: ...partitioning in the next release of IBM Director planned for the second half of 2002 Cluster Manager Cluster Manager allows an administrator to easily identify configure and manage clustered servers u...

Page 46: ...ical errors have been removed When Software Rejuvenation is invoked within a clustered environment cluster management failover services such as Microsoft Cluster Services and Microsoft Datacenter Serv...

Page 47: ...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 future releases See th...

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Page 49: ...is 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...

Page 50: ...y configurations would most likely be good candidates for traditional messaging collaboration environments such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino These applications do not scale well beyond a fou...

Page 51: ...as DB2 SQL Server and Oracle For instance a single database that spans multiple servers can be consolidated to an eight way x440 server or multiple databases on multiple server can be consolidated to...

Page 52: ...oss heterogeneous environments Using partitionable x440 servers to deploy ERP applications within a single large scale server which could be an attractive solution for SMB customers offering them new...

Page 53: ...aximize server utilization while simplifying overall management of the deployment Key CRM software vendors include Siebel Systems Baan Invensys Onyx PeopleSoft and SAP Business Intelligence Business i...

Page 54: ...orm for messaging collaboration applications Even though there are some scalability limits for Microsoft Exchange 2000 which does not scale well above four processors the x440 can be seen as an ideal...

Page 55: ...ut of operation In addition x440 in conjunction with VMware offers clustering which can be seen as another key solution for server consolidation For example a two node IIS cluster and a two node file...

Page 56: ...e of cluster also uses virtual machines The virtual disks are stored on real shared disks so all virtual machines can access them Using this type of cluster you can protect your mission critical appli...

Page 57: ...external storage enclosure or SAN depending on the size of the database which is driven by the number of users 2 2 Why choose the x440 There are some good reasons to choose the x440 as your mission cr...

Page 58: ...per SMP Expansion Module using 1 GB DIMMs and 32 GB of RAM with 2 GB DIMMs once they are available Six PCI X buses two for integrated devices four to internal PCI X slots 2 2 2 Intel Xeon MP and DP p...

Page 59: ...in the pipeline The Xeon Processor MP has a 20 stage pipeline which can hold up to 126 concurrent instructions inflight and up to 48 reads and 24 writes active in the pipeline Faster raw execution re...

Page 60: ...often the processor finds the data it needs and the less often it has to access main memory XceL4 server Accelerator cache provides the following benefits XceL4 server Accelerator Cache delivers up t...

Page 61: ...ding more efficient data transfers more adapters per bus segment and faster bus speeds for server systems PCI X enhances the PCI standard by doubling the throughput capability and providing new adapte...

Page 62: ...g the customer to build complexes of four way and eight way nodes up to 16 way SMP define and activate deactivate partitions and enable automatic re partitioning of hardware under the control of Direc...

Page 63: ...he system If one virtual partition were to lock up it would not affect the others Here are just a few of the ways that system partitioning can help you to improve IT efficiency Server hardware consoli...

Page 64: ...ndently Static partitioning also means that one node can t be subdivided into multiple partitions but a partition can consist of multiple nodes Dynamic partitioning has the same hardware boundaries as...

Page 65: ...s from different vendors of different sizes with different configurations Software ranges from used and well known to local and poorly understood Business services being provided will vary greatly in...

Page 66: ...finition Potential Benefit Centralization Relocate to fewer sites Reduction in administration costs Increased reliability and availability Lower operation costs Improved security and management Physic...

Page 67: ...Virtual centralization or remote management You can begin centralization in small steps With virtual centralization or remote management physically dispersed servers or storage systems are logically c...

Page 68: ...h larger servers of the same platform Based on the enterprise s platform four physical server consolidation cases can be considered Case 1 Small servers from one platform to server s on the same platf...

Page 69: ...a from different sources across the enterprise into a single repository and format The result is that the merged data can reside on fewer servers and more centralized and consistent storage devices gr...

Page 70: ...consolidation platform As for physical server consolidation application integration has several cases Application integration is combining different application workload types within a single server o...

Page 71: ...is made difficult by constantly changing applications Many organizations are realizing that as the number of servers increases the cost and operational complexity are also propagating In many cases th...

Page 72: ...ween clients and servers in a single location Regaining flexibility The standardization of procedures releases and servers also makes it easier to install new application software for example Internet...

Page 73: ...nsistent application platform Server consolidation can help you improve data access and protection in the following ways Network technology The growth of networking and network speeds is enabling the...

Page 74: ...rovides the ability to quickly grow the number of users the number of applications or the size of an application when needed without major disruptions to the current production environment Service lev...

Page 75: ...ee tier logical architectures tend in practice to become five tier architectures client local server central server gateway and enterprise server Server consolidation can simplify technical complexiti...

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Page 77: ...ize the configuration of your x440 system and before you begin implementing the system The topics covered are System hardware Cabling and connectivity Storage considerations Server partitioning and co...

Page 78: ...ndard SMP Expansion Module Using the optional second SMP Expansion Module part number 32P8340 up to eight processors can be installed in an x440 Processors are available as options Xeon Processor MP 2...

Page 79: ...ns For servers with Xeon DP processors Each SMP Expansion Module must have two processors installed and those processor must be installed in CPU sockets 1 and 4 The standard SMP Expansion Module must...

Page 80: ...ut all four DIMMs in a bank must be the same size If you want to install more than 32 GB of RAM you must use two SMP Expansion Modules This in turn means that a certain number of CPUs must also be ins...

Page 81: ...SMP Expansion Modules are individually configured for memory mirroring in the BIOS This means that as well as full memory mirroring you can also enable memory mirroring only in one SMP Expansion Modul...

Page 82: ...rating system to address this amount of memory there may be certain operating system configuration modifications required For example to enable Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server to ac...

Page 83: ...eeds The rated speed of adapter 1 The rated speed of adapter 2 if the bus the adapter is installed in has two slots The rated speed of the bus Bus B supports one adapter at up to 133 MHz or two adapte...

Page 84: ...erstand these rules and to select the best slots for your adapters Incorrect choices can result in a loss of PCI adapter performance Important A PCI X and a PCI adapter can be installed in slots on th...

Page 85: ...able is attached to its internal connector Do not install a ServeRAID card in slot 1 This is because there is little space between the top of the adapter and the cover when the covers are closed This...

Page 86: ...r placement in the x440 and Remote Expansion Enclosure RXE 100 For a detailed discussion on Active PCI Manager refer to 5 1 Active PCI Manager on page 130 3 1 4 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller Th...

Page 87: ...ve a mixed fiber copper Gigabit server switch network use the Broadcom based 22P7801 NetXtreme 1000 SX Fiber Ethernet adapter You can also team the onboard Gigabit card with 10 100 cards such as 06P36...

Page 88: ...Figure 3 4 For port locations on the Remote Supervisor Adapter refer to Figure 3 7 on page 77 Figure 3 4 Rear Panel of the x440 single SMP enclosure installed 3 2 1 SMP Expansion Module connectivity...

Page 89: ...Expansion Ports with two SMP Expansion Modules installed Note The two 10 inch scalability cables used to connect the two SMP Expansion Modules in a single x440 are included with the SMP Expansion modu...

Page 90: ...s relating to SMP Expansion Module cabling The SMP Expansion Module ports cannot currently be used as high speed interconnects for clustering purposes The connections do not offer redundancy If a conn...

Page 91: ...er to section 9 5 Remote Supervisor Adapter in the redbook Implementing IBM Director Management Solutions SG24 6188 This document talks about the Remote Supervisor Adapter as a separate adapter howeve...

Page 92: ...dbook Integrating IBM Director with Enterprise Management Solutions SG24 5388 Note The x440 does not include the necessary dongle to connect the Remote Supervisor Adapter to an ASM interconnect bus us...

Page 93: ...adapters running at up to 100 MHz Two 64 bit 3 3 V PCI or PCI X 33 or 66 MHz adapters Note The PCI slots supports 3 3 V adapters only 5 V adapters are not supported Like the x440 these slots can acce...

Page 94: ...e bus in the RXE 100 However these two adapters will both operate in PCI mode In addition if you have a PCI X adapter installed you cannot hot add a PCI adapter to the same bus This is because with ju...

Page 95: ...te I O cable to connect the unit to the x440 This cable is long enough when the devices are in the same rack as each other For installation in an adjacent rack use the optional 8 m Remote I O cable ki...

Page 96: ...be ordered separately Use either the 3 5 m or the 8 m Remote I O cable Interconnect management cable for remote I O management The RXE 100 also includes a 3 5 m interconnect management cable an Ether...

Page 97: ...d the operating system However we recommend that you use a separate serial port 3 3 Storage considerations When you are planning the storage configuration to accompany the x440 there are important per...

Page 98: ...IBM Enterprise Storage Server ESS ESCON connectivity to a zSeries server 3 3 1 xSeries storage solutions This section discusses some of the available xSeries storage solutions and related technologies...

Page 99: ...xseries scsi_raid html IBM Fibre Array Storage Technology The IBM Fibre Array Storage Technology FAStT family of Fibre Channel storage solutions is designed for high availability high capacity require...

Page 100: ...to provide redundant connection to the host adapters and to EXP500 enclosures Each RAID controller unit also contains 128 MB of battery backup cache The IBM TotalStorage FAStT500 Storage Server The F...

Page 101: ...and the new 2109 F16 Fibre Channel switch to give full 2 Gbps fabric Like the FAStT500 it attaches to up to 220 FC disks via 22 EXP500 expansion units or up to 224 FC disks via 16 EXP700 expansion uni...

Page 102: ...nment containing a variety of server architectures ESS offers several choices of host I O interface attachment methods including SCSI and Fibre Channel for xSeries For more information on the ESS go t...

Page 103: ...quirements increase Performance requirements You need to consider the backup window available as well as the amount of data being backed up when determining what your backup performance requirements w...

Page 104: ...X Server SG24 6852 3 5 Operating system considerations In line with the overall message of providing application flexibility to meet the varying needs of our enterprise customers the x440 is optimized...

Page 105: ...nizes the logical processors and can execute threads on them but is not optimized for Hyper Threading Optimized indicates that the operating system recognizes the logical processors and the operating...

Page 106: ...d 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 chassis configuration must be fully assembled before installing NetWare...

Page 107: ...ndard and optional services the latest of these being a Software Update Subscription to provide updates designed to keep the Datacenter Solution at the latest levels The subscription for an eight way...

Page 108: ...n The 16 way configurations are comprised of two eight way Datacenter Server systems as described in Table 3 3 on page 94 Model Standard processors Max SMP L2 cache L3 cache Std memory 8687 1AX 2x 1 4...

Page 109: ...nse Kit model number 4816 1DU Add the Software Update Subscription model number 4816 ADX Add RAM so the total memory is 8 GB 4 GB in each system Option 2 Customers who already own an eight way Datacen...

Page 110: ...ws 2000 custom HAL on page 112 for detailed instructions on installing the HAL From a licensing point of view logical processors as provided by Hyper Threading are counted against the Windows licensin...

Page 111: ...chitecture technology Novell will support high scalability 32 processors x 32 nodes per cluster large memory 64 GB Active PCI X hot swap hot add the Xeon Processor MP including Hyper Threading and xAP...

Page 112: ...are three 16 way ESX Server models currently or soon to be available Table 3 4 New models for the 16 way fixed configurations running VMware ESX Server These models also have a ServeRAID 4Mx adapter...

Page 113: ...own to the BIOS level just as individual servers are Figure 3 11 ESX Server resides between the server hardware and server resources Managing server resources The ESX Server s advanced resource manage...

Page 114: ...o processor license is required even though the application may process threads on four logical processors Performance benefits versus licensing costs may be a consideration before enabling Hyper Thre...

Page 115: ...sors and spawn additional threads as the number of processors increases to keep all processors busy Hyper Threading increases the number of logical processors and demands that the software spawn addit...

Page 116: ...ended for use as a rack drawer server Due to power distribution considerations it is recommended that no more than eight 4U x440 chassis be installed in a single 42U rack leaving 10U available for RXE...

Page 117: ...out of the rack This would include the normal cables such as power network and fiber cables but also includes the Remote I O cable for connecting to the RXE 100 and the SMP expansion cables for conne...

Page 118: ...utions may need only a self review However a combination of the customer environment risk combined with the complexity of the solution may require that an expert level SAR take place facilitated by a...

Page 119: ...ensive Self For low risk solutions Informal inexpensive eSAR Electronic Solution Assurance Review There is also an eSAR tool available to help you establish whether you require an expert review This i...

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Page 121: ...vell NetWare and VMware operating systems on the x440 platform Topics covered include System BIOS settings Device drivers Operating system installation Additional Information Prior to commencing insta...

Page 122: ...http www pc ibm com qtechinfo MIGR 39747 html Follow the installation instructions provided with each package 4 1 2 Enabling memory mirroring Memory mirroring part of IBM s Active Memory technology pr...

Page 123: ...or to execute two separate instruction threads concurrently effectively operating as two separate logical processors The installed operating system sees these logical processors as two separate physic...

Page 124: ...it the System Configuration Utility saving changes Eight way systems Hyper Threading is disabled by default on the x440 This is because of a known bug in Windows 2000 Advanced Server If Hyper Threadin...

Page 125: ...4JTS2T html If you are implementing Microsoft Cluster Service MSCS check the Microsoft Cluster Service Hardware Compatibility List HCL to confirm that hardware drivers and firmware have been Microsof...

Page 126: ...ed HAL enables Windows 2000 to operate with the extended CPU and PCI configurations that are possible in the x440 system The custom HAL for Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server can be downloaded fr...

Page 127: ...be prompted to install the ServeRAID driver as well 4 When you are prompted to select the Computer Type as shown in Figure 4 3 select Other and press Enter Figure 4 3 Installing IBM custom HAL 5 Inser...

Page 128: ...ndows 2000 installation and configuration as normal You will be prompted to insert the Windows 2000 HAL Support Disk and the ServeRAID driver disk if required a second time during the text mode portio...

Page 129: ...e 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 corr...

Page 130: ...the ServeRAID adapter driver 2 Install the driver for the onboard Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet adapter To perform this update open Device Manager right click Ethernet Controller under Other dev...

Page 131: ...ed with each individual driver package Figure 4 7 shows Device Manager after the Active PCI RSA and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet drivers have been installed Figure 4 7 Windows 2000 Device Manager after d...

Page 132: ...losure Once Windows 2000 is installed if you haven t done so already you can attach the RXE 100 Follow these steps 1 Once the installation of Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server is com...

Page 133: ...llation In this section we discuss the installation of Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Version 2 1 on the x440 server Before installing Red Hat Linux update firmware and BIOS levels as discussed in 4 1...

Page 134: ...ernel do one of the following If you later wish to add additional features and support to the kernel by recompiling it install the kernel source RPM from either the Advanced Server CD 2 or from the Re...

Page 135: ...der Linux Hyper Threading support is part of the summit kernel Once the kernel has been installed and compiled and you enable Hype Threading support in the BIOS Red Hat Linux Advanced Server will reco...

Page 136: ...00 5 Enable Hyper Threading You will need the following device drivers Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet from http www pc ibm com qtechinfo MIGR 43369 html Remote Supervisor Adapter from http www pc ibm com q...

Page 137: ...the instruction until the driver is installed and is loaded in the NetWare installer screen At this point you will be returned to the list of detected device drivers which should now include the netw...

Page 138: ...of these updates is not critical but we recommend that you install the latest Support Pack prior to installing the device drivers Update the ServeRAID adapter driver Install the driver for Remote Supe...

Page 139: ...and any adapters that are currently in the hot plug PCI slots as shown in Figure 4 12 Figure 4 12 Verifies that PCI hot plug installation was successful Highlighting a slot and pressing Enter shows th...

Page 140: ...ds support for the x440 when the RXE 100 is installed Perform the following operation 1 Bring the server down to a DOS prompt 2 Go to C NWSERVER directory and rename the NBI NLM to NBI OLD if it exist...

Page 141: ...his can be done in one of two ways depending on your current level of NetWare 6 deployment Method 1 For a current installation of NetWare 6 apply NW6SP1 if not done previously Copy ACPIDRV PSM from th...

Page 142: ...erver Consolidation with the IBM xSeries 440 and VMware ESX Server SG24 6852 4 4 Additional Information For additional information on the installation of the x440 refer to the following product public...

Page 143: ...hysically partition an x440 complex for example a 16 way so that each partition behaves as an independent server 5 3 Process Control on page 155 Process Control can help improve performance both for t...

Page 144: ...om a pre release version of IBM Director 3 1 service pack 1 Version 3 1 1 Figure 5 1 Active PCI Manager revision Active PCI Manager 3 1 1 will be a plug in for IBM Director 3 1 1 just as the current v...

Page 145: ...com qtechinfo MIGR 4J2QEQ html Once installed Active PCI Manager appears as a task in the Director console as shown in Figure 5 2 Figure 5 2 Active PCI Manager task on IBM Director main console Activ...

Page 146: ...orange bar above the adapter indicates that the adapter present in that slot is hot swappable The tree pane in this view lower left shows there is an RXE 100 attached to the server By selecting the RX...

Page 147: ...on the chassis I O Drawer This value is only relevant when an RXE 100 is selected The number is unique and the first drawer will be number 0 Unit Name Unit Type The unit name is IBM eServer xSeries 4...

Page 148: ...t PME and the x440 and RXE 100 slots do not support PME Bus Number a system assigned number for each bus Useful for identifying slots that are on the same bus but the bus number does not correlate to...

Page 149: ...ot stopped before power to adapter was removed This should be avoided Use the Unplug or Eject Hardware wizard to disable the adapter before removing it Slot disabled at current speed A second 133 MHz...

Page 150: ...e attributes in the tree view and slot view 5 1 2 Adding adapters to the system The process of adding an adapter to an x440 using Active PCI Manager is straightforward As an example let s add two adap...

Page 151: ...om two check boxes are selected indicating the following default settings Active PCI Manager will suggest only slots with hot plug support all of the slots in the x440 and RXE 100 support hot plug Slo...

Page 152: ...g the wizard this way it may fail to find a slot If it does find a slot the adapter will not require the system to be restarted but the adapter may not be running at the best speed or in the best mode...

Page 153: ...ble 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 Finish to close the wizard 6 From the slot view select...

Page 154: ...etaining arm to the closed position The orange tab will click back into place locking the adapter retaining arm down Lock options There are lock options for a slot see Figure 5 10 These will lock a sl...

Page 155: ...bit 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 QLogic QLA23xx PCI Fibre Channel Adapter do the foll...

Page 156: ...n Figure 5 13 Click the Adapter Keying button to cycle through drawings of adapters in the right pane in Figure 5 13 and select the appropriate adapter from the shape and location of the PCI connector...

Page 157: ...Hz 64 bit Dual voltage No PME signal Full height that is not low profile Half length Note Clicking the Adapter Keying button only changes the bus width and voltage pull down menus The other fields max...

Page 158: ...5 15 Windows finds new hardware 7 Supply the device driver for the adapter as per usual to complete the installation Active PCI Manager is not required to hot add an adapter but the use of the blink...

Page 159: ...erformance problem was discovered Note You will note that the optimizer reports that both slots 3 and 6 contain boot devices These are potential boot devices not necessarily actual boot devices IBM do...

Page 160: ...d 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 line Eject...

Page 161: ...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 remo...

Page 162: ...e device by clicking OK 5 Once the operating system confirms the adapter has been stopped use the Slot Blink action see step 6 on page 139 to indicate which adapter to remove 6 Remove the adapter 7 Ac...

Page 163: ...gement 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...

Page 164: ...Active PCI Manager we are assured that our I O subsystem is configured for optimal performance We can use Active PCI manager to assist us in configuring our system or to reconfigure our system after i...

Page 165: ...Partition A node or group of nodes configured as a single server with their attached Remote I O Enclosures if present The smallest partition is a single x440 server Complex A group of up to four node...

Page 166: ...ss to all associated adapters The following is a list of characteristics that are in the initial release of System Partition Manager The IBM Director administrator specifies which nodes chassis and Re...

Page 167: ...onsole with the managed objects introduced by System Partition Manager Figure 5 23 System Partition Manager in IBM Director Figure 5 24 on page 154 shows Partition Assistant the tool used to define an...

Page 168: ...ots in the enclosure have been allocated to this node indicates that the second right or B six PCI slots in the enclosure have been allocated to this node indicates that all 12 PCI slots in the enclos...

Page 169: ...unning Windows 2000 Process Control was developed by IBM and built into Windows 2000 Datacenter Server For xSeries customers Process Control is also available for use on Windows 2000 Server Windows 20...

Page 170: ...5 3 1 Process alias rules Windows 2000 uses the process ID associated with each process image name to identify a process see Figure 5 26 Process IDs change with each invocation of a process and may be...

Page 171: ...ocess alias rule in Process Control consists of two steps 1 Identifying a process or group of processes 2 Giving the process or group of processes an alias name To create a process alias rule highligh...

Page 172: ...on the process image name String name identifies processes based on image names directory matches or a combination of an image name and a directory Wildcards and environment variables can be used in...

Page 173: ...nagement 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...

Page 174: ...rough 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 previous step as shown in Figure 5 31 Figure 5...

Page 175: ...Next If you check the box Execute within a process group the fields in the next three windows are all greyed out This is because you change these settings via group rules as described in the next sec...

Page 176: ...ocess 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...

Page 177: ...inity Assigning processor affinity means that the processes in the group execute only on the specified processor s In our example all of our Web services execute on processor 3 the fourth processor si...

Page 178: ...ame priority To determine what priority processes have natively run the process open Task Manager select the Processes tab select View Select Columns and select Base Priority as shown in Figure 5 37 o...

Page 179: ...rested 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 coarse setting Much finer control can...

Page 180: ...on 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 Memo...

Page 181: ...nce will be satisfied by paging to disk even if there is available memory on the system The second field defines an upper limit for the memory physical and virtual each process can use The third field...

Page 182: ...d to either terminate the processes or allow them to continue but generate an event in the event log IBM Director can be configured to execute an event action plan based on any entry in to the Windows...

Page 183: ...vent 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 Process Control Properties window is...

Page 184: ...ows 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 for accumulating usage statistics for...

Page 185: ...es any process started by the executing process group to execute outside of the process group This implies that the newly created process will not be subject to the Process Control rules of the parent...

Page 186: ...processes that are not managed under the group s rules This may prevent the spread of Trojan horse viruses that enter a system attached to other processes and then attempt to run as services or under...

Page 187: ...esource planning ESCON enterprise systems connection ESS Enterprise Storage Server FC Fibre Channel FRU field replaceable unit GA general availability Abbreviations and acronyms GB gigabyte GBps gigab...

Page 188: ...d Hat Package Manager RSA Remote Supervisor Adapter SAN storage area network SAR Solution Assurance Review SCM supply chain management SCSI small computer system interface SDRAM static dynamic random...

Page 189: ...onsolidation A Guide for IT Managers SG24 5600 The IBM LTO Ultrium Tape Libraries Guide SG24 5946 Implementing IBM Director Management Solutions SG24 6188 Server Consolidation with the IBM xSeries 440...

Page 190: ...info MIGR 4J2QEQ html ActivePCI Software package http www pc ibm com us compat nos matrix shtml ServerProven page for information about operating system compatibility http www pc ibm com us compat lan...

Page 191: ...rocessor Family for Servers with Hyper Threading Technology http www intel com technology hyperthread Information on Hyper Threading Microsoft sites http support microsoft com default aspx scid kb en...

Page 192: ...s view download or search for Redbooks at the following Web site ibm com redbooks You can also download additional materials code samples or diskette CD ROM images from that site IBM Redbooks collecti...

Page 193: ...cense kit 95 4816 ABX Datacenter eight way subscription 93 4816 ADX Datacenter 16 way subscription 93 59P5171 1 5 GHz Xeon Processor MP 64 59P5172 1 9 GHz Xeon Processor MP 64 59P5173 2 0 GHz Xeon Pro...

Page 194: ...rtual clusters 42 VMware 41 Cognos 39 collaboration 40 Computer Type 113 configuration rules See rules configuration tools rack configurator 103 consolidation 36 49 CPU affinity 163 CPU utilization Ne...

Page 195: ...ading 109 Linux 119 memory mirroring 108 NetWare 121 VMware ESX Server 128 Windows 2000 Server 112 Intel PRO 1000 XT 73 Intel Xeon Processor DP 16 17 positioning 45 Intel Xeon Processor MP 13 16 posit...

Page 196: ...e x440 68 PeopleSoft 38 39 performance application scalability 100 disk subsystem 88 memory configuration 67 physical consolidation 51 physical partitioning 7 pipeline 16 planning 63 105 ports 65 posi...

Page 197: ...PCI 72 SCM 38 scrubbing memory 20 46 SCSI internal cabling 71 SCSI ports 23 SDRAM 9 19 serial port not in x440 83 serial ports 24 server consolidation 36 49 51 61 application integration 56 availabil...

Page 198: ...twister chip 7 U Ultra 160 SCSI ports 23 USB ports 23 USB to serial adapter 83 V vertical position not supported 102 video controller 23 video PCI adapters 71 virtual clustering 42 VMware ESX Server...

Page 199: ...0 2 spine 0 17 0 473 90 249 pages IBM xSeries 440 Planning and Installation Guide...

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Page 202: ...BM XA 32 chipset code named Summit as part of the Enterprise X Architecture strategy The x440 provides new levels of high availability and price performance and offers scalability from two way to 16 w...

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