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IBM Power 570
Technical Overview
and Introduction

Giuliano Anselmi

YoungHoon Cho

Gregor Linzmeier

Marcos Quezada

John T Schmidt

Guido Somers

Expandable modular design supporting advanced
mainframe class continuous availability

PowerVM virtualization including the
optional Enterprise edition

POWER6 processor efficiency
operating at state-of-the-art
throughput levels

Summary of Contents for Power 570

Page 1: ...nd Introduction Giuliano Anselmi YoungHoon Cho Gregor Linzmeier Marcos Quezada John T Schmidt Guido Somers Expandable modular design supporting advanced mainframe class continuous availability PowerVM...

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Page 3: ...International Technical Support Organization IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction October 2008 Draft Document for Review September 2 2008 5 05 pm 4405edno fm REDP 4405 00...

Page 4: ...e duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp 4405edno fm Draft Document for Review September 2 2008 5 05 pm First Edition October 2008 This edition applies to the...

Page 5: ...1 4 5 Rack mounting rules 17 1 4 6 Useful rack additions 18 1 4 7 OEM rack 19 Chapter 2 Architecture and technical overview 23 2 1 The POWER6 processor 24 2 1 1 Decimal floating point 26 2 1 2 AltiVec...

Page 6: ...rnal disk subsystems 55 2 11 1 IBM System Storage EXP 12S FC 5886 56 2 11 2 IBM TotalStorage EXP24 Expandable Storage 57 2 11 3 IBM System Storage N3000 N5000 and N7000 58 2 11 4 IBM TotalStorage Stor...

Page 7: ...ry 103 4 3 Serviceability 104 4 3 1 Detecting errors 105 4 3 2 Diagnosing problems 107 4 3 3 Reporting problems 109 4 3 4 Notifying the appropriate contacts 110 4 3 5 Locating and repairing the proble...

Page 8: ...4405TOC fm Draft Document for Review March 26 2009 5 10 pm vi IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction...

Page 9: ...will be incorporated in new editions of the publication IBM may make improvements and or changes in the product s and or the program s described in this publication at any time without notice Any ref...

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Page 11: ...ness Partners Independent software vendors This Redpaper expands the current set of IBM Power Systems documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the...

Page 12: ...rsity in St Louis He is currently working in the United States as a presales Field Technical Sales Specialist for System p in St Louis MO Guido Somers is a Cross Systems Certified IT Specialist workin...

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Page 14: ...4405pref fm Draft Document for Review March 26 2009 5 10 pm xii IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction...

Page 15: ...ystem This design allows up to four modules to be configured in a 19 inch rack as a single SMP server allowing clients to start with what they need and grow by adding additional building blocks A full...

Page 16: ...ncludes IBM Micro Partitioning and Virtual I O Server VIOS capabilities Micro partitions can be defined as small as 1 10th of a processor and be changed in increments as small as 1 100th of a processo...

Page 17: ...rating Operating temperature 5 to 35 degrees C 41 to 95 F Relative humidity 8 to 80 Maximum wet bulb 23 degrees C 73 F Noise level with 3 5 GHz processors FC 5620 7 1 bels with 3 5 GHz processors FC 5...

Page 18: ...nfiguration is made of four CEC building blocks It features 2 4 8 12 16 and 32 core configurations utilizing the POWER6 chip on up to eight dual core processor cards or eight dual core POWER6 dual chi...

Page 19: ...per enclosure The HMC must be attached to CEC enclosure 1 and CEC enclosure 2 to support redundant Service Processors Two SPCN ports per enclosure In addition each building block features one internal...

Page 20: ...s are available only as Capacity on Demand and support the same CoD options described for processors with the exception of Utility CoD Memory Trial CoD exception offers a one time no additional charge...

Page 21: ...y per enclosure Only the new SAS DASD hard disks are supported internally The older SCSI DASD hard files can be attached but must be located in a remote I O drawer In a full configuration with four co...

Page 22: ...or 7014 T42 The 7311 Model D11 I O drawer offers a modular growth path for systems with increasing I O requirements A fully configured system supports 20 attached 7311 Model D11 I O drawers The combin...

Page 23: ...ed adapters are protected by plastic separators which are designed to prevent grounding and damage when adding or removing adapters The drawer has the following attributes 4U rack mount enclosure asse...

Page 24: ...Dual Port 12X Channel Attach Adapters available for the Model G30 allow higher speed data transfer rates for remote I O drawers A single 12X Channel I O loop can support up to four G30 I O drawers Whe...

Page 25: ...used the total number of I O drawers allowed will be the values shown for the 7314 G30 assuming enough GX slots are available to configure the required RIO 2 and 12x channel adapters For either attac...

Page 26: ...1 8 POWER6 HMC models available 1 4 System racks The system is designed to be installed in a 7014 T00 or T42 rack The 7014 Model T00 and T42 are 19 inch racks for general use with IBM System p rack mo...

Page 27: ...eight is increased to 1926 mm 75 8 in if a power distribution panel is fixed to the top of the rack Up to four power distribution units PDUs can be mounted in the PDU bays see Figure 1 3 on page 15 bu...

Page 28: ...ches to client supplied water using industry standard fittings and couplings Up to 15 KW approximately 50 000 BTUs hr of heat removed from air exiting the back of a fully populated rack One year limit...

Page 29: ...tions FC 5889 and FC 7109 support a wide range of country requirements and electrical power specifications The PDU receives power through a UTG0247 power line connector Each PDU requires one PDU to wa...

Page 30: ...into The following list shows the characteristics of an iPDU Input connector Connect power cord to this connector Power outlets Power outlet for devices There are nine or 12 power outlets depending o...

Page 31: ...in a contiguous space of 8 U 12 U or 16 U within the rack The uppermost enclosure in the system is the base enclosure This enclosure will contain the primary active Service Processor and the Operator...

Page 32: ...Model 102 has two bays that can accommodate any of the following storage drive features A Digital Data Storage DDS Gen 5 DAT72 Tape Drive provides a physical storage capacity of 36 GB 72 GB with 2 1 c...

Page 33: ...the switch can connect a maximum of 16 systems One KCO cable FC 4268 or USB cable FC 4269 is required for every four systems supported on the switch A maximum of 16 KCO cables or USB cables per port...

Page 34: ...les must consist of sets of three holes spaced from bottom to top 15 9 mm 0 625 in 15 9 mm 0 625 in and 12 67 mm 0 5 in on center making each three hole set of vertical hole spacing 44 45 mm 1 75 in a...

Page 35: ...per EIA unit The system rack or cabinet must be compatible with drawer mounting rails including a secure and snug fit of the rail mounting pins and screws into the rack or cabinet rail support hole No...

Page 36: ...4405ch01 General description fm Draft Document for Review May 22 2009 3 10 pm 22 IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction...

Page 37: ...or Clock 1 Elastic Interface CPU planar CPU card 1 SMP fabric bus cable connection CPU card 2 P5IOC2 chip IVE core Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter 2 or 4 Ethernet ports PCI X host bridge PCI e hos...

Page 38: ...truction will continue to fail Systems with POWER6 processors introduce the ability to extract the failing instruction from the faulty core and retry it elsewhere in the system after which the failing...

Page 39: ...llowing additional enhancements Compatibility of 64 bit architecture Binary compatibility for all POWER and PowerPC application code level Support of partition migration Support of virtualized partiti...

Page 40: ...to conversion to and from DFP64 For some operations the DFP processor also supports operands in other data types including signed or unsigned binary fixed point data and signed or unsigned decimal da...

Page 41: ...WER6 processor based systems It provides functions to help the user understand and control IBM server power and cooling usage In this section we will describe IBM EnergyScale features and hardware and...

Page 42: ...ggable PCI adapter slots that are empty or not being used to save approximately 14 watts per slot System firmware automatically scans all pluggable PCI slots at regular intervals looking for ones that...

Page 43: ...can address all the memory on the processor card Access to memory behind another processor is accomplished through the fabric buses The 2 core 570 processor card contains a dual core processor chip a...

Page 44: ...system can be made of as shown in Figure 2 4 Because of the redundancy and fault recovery built in to the system interconnects a drawer failure does not represent a system failure Once a problem is i...

Page 45: ...ns at 4208 MHz Cpu 4 runs at 4208 MHz Cpu 5 runs at 4208 MHz Cpu 6 runs at 4208 MHz Cpu 7 runs at 4208 MHz 2 4 Memory subsystem When you consider a 570 initial order the memory controller is internal...

Page 46: ...itial order is 2 GB when a 3 5 GHz 4 2 GHz or 4 7 GHz system is configured with two processor cores FC 5620 FC 5622 and FC 7380 processor cards support up to 12 fully buffered DIMM slots and DIMMs mus...

Page 47: ...memory feature will provide additional memory capacity but will not increase memory bandwidth System performance that is dependent on memory bandwidth can be improved by purchasing two smaller featur...

Page 48: ...le depends from the number of FC 5621 and FC 5622 processor cards available in the fully combined 570 system 2 4 4 OEM memory OEM memory is not supported or certified for use in IBM System p servers I...

Page 49: ...hputs for comparison purposes only Table 2 3 provides the theoretical throughput values of 4 7 GHz processors and 667 Mhz memory configuration Table 2 3 Theoretical throughput values 2 5 System buses...

Page 50: ...ub FC 1800 and Dual port 12x Channel Attach FC 1802 adapters that are installed in the GX slots are used for external DASD and IO drawer expansion All GX cards are Hot Pluggable Table 2 4 provides I O...

Page 51: ...ndling EEH enabled In the unlikely event of a problem EEH enabled adapters respond to a special data packet generated from the affected PCIe or PCI X slot hardware by calling system firmware which wil...

Page 52: ...6 2 8 6 Asynchronous PCI adapters on page 47 are available If an HMC is connected a virtual serial console is provided by the HMC logical device vsa0 under AIX and you can also connect a modem to the...

Page 53: ...rnet Adapter IVE supports 2 or 4 Ethernet ports running at 1 Gbps and 2 ports running at 10 Gbps depending on the IVE feature ordered In the case of a 570 server clients that are using 1 Gbps connecti...

Page 54: ...integrated ports the feature does not have hot swappable or hot pluggable capability and must be serviced by a trained IBM System Service Representative Figure 2 12 on page 41 shows the rear view of a...

Page 55: ...ifferent connectivity options and different cable support see Figure 2 13 Figure 2 13 IVE physical port connectors according to IVE feature codes FC 5636 and FC 5639 supports 1 Gbps connectivity 10 Mb...

Page 56: ...ors reduce memory access Direct user space per connection queueing OS bypass Designed for up to 3 times throughput improvement over current 10 Gbps solutions Provide additional acceleration functions...

Page 57: ...CI adapters Peripheral Component Interconnect Express PCIe uses a serial interface and allows for point to point interconnections between devices using directly wired interface between these connectio...

Page 58: ...hat are available Table 2 6 Available LAN adapters 2 8 2 SCSI and SAS adapters To connect to external SCSI or SAS devices the adapters that are provided in Table 2 7 are available to be configured Tab...

Page 59: ...lemented on top of the physical and data link layers and presents to the operating system a standard SCSI Access Method command set It supports SCSI 3 commands and reliable delivery over IP networks T...

Page 60: ...ternal storage of its own IBM iSCSI adapters iSCSI adapters in IBM System p systems provide the advantage of increased bandwidth through the hardware support of the iSCSI protocol The 1 Gigabit iSCSI...

Page 61: ...10 Available Fibre Channel adapters 2 8 5 Graphic accelerators The 570 support up to four graphics adapters Table 2 11 provides the available graphic accelerators They can be configured to operate in...

Page 62: ...with its point to point high frequency connections The SAS controller has eight SAS ports four of them are used to connect to the DASD drives and one to a media device The DASD backplane implements t...

Page 63: ...ble disk options Prior to the hot swap of a disk drive in the hot swappable capable bay all necessary operating system actions must be undertaken to ensure that the disk is capable of being deconfigur...

Page 64: ...an be populated with a GX adapter card that adds more RIO G ports to connect external I O drawers The GX adapter cards listed in Table 2 16 are supported at the time of writing Table 2 16 GX adapter c...

Page 65: ...7311 Model D11 rules and maximum support Table 2 17 describes the maximum number of I O drawer supported Table 2 17 Maximum number of 7311 Model D11 I O drawers supported 2 10 2 Consideration for 731...

Page 66: ...otal of 12 disks Additionally the SCSI cables FC 4257 are used to connect a SCSI adapter any of various features in slot 7 to each of the 6 packs or two SCSI adapters one in slot 4 and one in slot 7 S...

Page 67: ...I O drawers must be a total of four per single loop The optional RIO 2 expansion card may be used to increase the number of I O drawers that can be connected to one 570 building block and the same rul...

Page 68: ...o rack 15 m FC 6007 SPCN cable rack to rack 30 m FC 6029 2 10 6 7314 Model G30 I O drawer The 7314 G30 expansion unit is a rack mountable I O expansion drawer that is designed to be attached to the sy...

Page 69: ...Model G30 drawers can be installed in a unit enclosure FC 7314 The unit enclosure requires to be installed in a 19 rack such as the 7014 T00 or 7014 T42 The actual installation location in the rack wi...

Page 70: ...lar SAS disk expansion drawer Up to 12 3 5 inch SAS disk drives Variety of supported connection options from single attachment to a HACMP solution Redundant hot plug power and cooling with dual line c...

Page 71: ...otalStorage EXP24 Expandable Storage disk enclosure Model D24 or T24 can be purchased together with the 570 and will provide low cost Ultra320 LVD SCSI disk storage This disk storage enclosure device...

Page 72: ...e nas 2 11 4 IBM TotalStorage Storage DS4000 Series The IBM System Storage DS4000 line of Fibre Channel enabled Storage offerings provides a wide range of storage solutions for your Storage Area Netwo...

Page 73: ...between the HMC and the server s service processor moreover if dynamic LPAR operations are required all AIX 5L AIX V6 and Linux partitions must be enabled to communicate over the network to the HMC En...

Page 74: ...e Creating and maintaining a multiple partition environment Displaying a virtual operating system session terminal for each partition Displaying a virtual operator panel of contents for each partition...

Page 75: ...n is desired the servers can be attached to two separate HMCs to address availability requirements All HMCs must have the same level of Hardware Management Console Licensed Machine Code Version 7 FC 0...

Page 76: ...h multiple systems or HMC s the customer is required to provide switches or hubs to connect each HMC to the appropriate Service Interface Cards in each system One HMC should connect to the port labele...

Page 77: ...http www14 software ibm com webapp set2 sas f suma home html AIX 5L is supported on the System p servers in partitions with dedicated processors LPARs and shared processor partitions micro partitions...

Page 78: ...ould consider the following Not all devices and features supported by the AIX operating system are supported in logical partitions running the Linux operating system Linux operating system licenses ar...

Page 79: ...processor book Terra cotta The system can remain powered on while this task is being performed Keep in mind that some tasks might require that other steps have to be performed first One example is dec...

Page 80: ...n 04 Lamp Test Function 05 Reserved Function 06 Reserved Function 07 SPCN functions Function 08 Fast Power Off Functions 09 to 10 Reserved Functions 11 to 19 System Reference Code Function 20 System t...

Page 81: ...two copies of the server firmware One copy is considered the permanent or backup copy and is stored on the permanent side sometimes referred to as the p side The other copy is considered the installed...

Page 82: ...firmware level that is currently installed on the permanent side from the permanent side to the temporary side System firmware download site For the system firmware download site for the 570 go to ht...

Page 83: ...om your service provider or from an FTP server on which you previously placed the fixes Neither the HMC nor your server is connected to the Internet server firmware only You need to download your new...

Page 84: ...oller running the service processor internal operating system The service processor operating system contains specific programs and device drivers for the service processor hardware The host interface...

Page 85: ...CEC enclosure 1 and CEC enclosure 2 The Service Interface Card in these two enclosures must be connected using an external Power Control cable FC 6006 or similar http publib boulder ibm com infocenter...

Page 86: ...nus to view information about your system or partition and to perform tasks such as changing the boot list or setting the network parameters To start System Management Services perform the following s...

Page 87: ...re shares the same firmware binary that is stored in the flash memory In a partitioned environment Open Firmware runs on top of the global Open Firmware instance The partition Open Firmware is started...

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Page 89: ...resources to reduce total cost of ownership and make better use of IT assets Improve business responsiveness and operational speed by dynamically re allocating resources to applications as needed to...

Page 90: ...of the Service Processor notifying the operating system if the problem is not corrected The POWER Hypervisor is always active regardless of the system configuration and also when not connected to the...

Page 91: ...an transmit packets with a size up to 65408 bytes Therefore the maximum MTU for the corresponding interface can be up to 65394 65390 if VLAN tagging is used The POWER Hypervisor presents itself to par...

Page 92: ...reach the optimum capacity for each defined dynamic LPAR 3 2 2 Micro Partitioning Micro Partitioning technology allows you to allocate fractions of processors to a logical partition This technology w...

Page 93: ...or partitions are dispatched and time sliced on the physical processors under control of the POWER Hypervisor The shared processor partitions are created and managed by the HMC or Integrated Virtualiz...

Page 94: ...the donation of spare CPU cycles from dedicated processor partitions to a Shared Processor Pool The dedicated partition maintains absolute priority for dedicated CPU cycles Enabling this feature may...

Page 95: ...ction Table 3 2 outlines the functional elements of both of the PowerVM editions Table 3 2 PowerVM capabilities For more information about the different PowerVM editions please refer to PowerVM Virtua...

Page 96: ...apter processes packets at layer 2 the original MAC address and VLAN tags of the packet are visible to other systems on the physical network IEEE 802 1 VLAN tagging is supported The Shared Ethernet Ad...

Page 97: ...olution Protocol ARP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP Boot Protocol BOOTP and Neighbor Discovery Protocol NDP can work across an SEA For a more detailed discussion about virtual networking see...

Page 98: ...rtition to access physical SCSI and SAN attached devices and LUNs that are assigned to the client partition The provisioning of virtual disk resources is provided by the Virtual I O Server Physical di...

Page 99: ...n into an existing Tivoli Systems Management infrastructure and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager ADDM which creates and maintains automatically application infrastructure maps including...

Page 100: ...ly access hardware devices for example graphics adapters Require nonstandard kernel module access or use kernel modules not provided by the Linux for POWER operating system distribution Do not use onl...

Page 101: ...our end users to continue their work without disruption Preventive failure management If a server indicates a potential failure you can move its logical partitions to another server before the failure...

Page 102: ...run multiple applications inside the same instance of an AIX operating system while providing security and administrative isolation between applications Workload partitions complement logical partiti...

Page 103: ...uch as policy based application mobility for automation of workload partitions relocation based on current performance state The workload partition manager is an intuitive graphical user interface bas...

Page 104: ...eatures supported by AIX and Linux 1 Dynamic memory removal is not supported by Linux at the time of writing 2 On selected models available Note The IBM PowerVM Workload Partition Manager for AIX 6 is...

Page 105: ...that anticipates future workloads that you must support Sample systems that you can customize to fit your needs Integration between the SPT and both the Workload Estimator WLE and IBM Performance Mana...

Page 106: ...ttp www ibm com systems support tools systemplanningtool Note In previous releases of the SPT you could view an HMC or IVM system plan but you could not edit the plan The SPT now allows you to convert...

Page 107: ...en together in many failure scenarios these features allow a POWER6 processor based system to recover transparently without an impact on a partition using a failing core This chapter includes several...

Page 108: ...ade 5 achieve the same reliability as grade 1 parts Figure 4 1 Component failure rates 4 1 2 Placement of components Packaging is designed to deliver both high performance and high reliability For exa...

Page 109: ...us field monitoring Aided by the IBM First Failure Data Capture FFDC methodology and the associated error reporting strategy commodity managers build an accurate profile of the types of failures that...

Page 110: ...econfigured from the system after the first occurrence The system can be rebooted immediately after failure and resume operation on the remaining stable hardware This prevents the same faulty hardware...

Page 111: ...with any partition on the system thus enables the following sequential scenarios for processor deallocation and sparing 1 An unlicensed Capacity on Demand CoD processor core is by default automatical...

Page 112: ...ery Interrupt a repeatedly failing instruction and move it to a new processor and continue with the task Partition availability priority Starting with POWER6 technology partitions receive an integer r...

Page 113: ...mance Memory array manufacturing characteristics POWER6 processor based systems have a number of protection schemes designed to prevent protect or limit the effect of errors in main memory These capab...

Page 114: ...operation the POWER Hypervisor warns the operating system if memory pages are included which need to be deallocated Finally should an uncorrectable error occur the system can deallocate the memory gr...

Page 115: ...s soon as is convenient Upon reboot if not enough memory is available to meet minimum partition requirements the POWER Hypervisor will reduce the capacity of one or more partitions The HMC receives no...

Page 116: ...I O is configured for redundancy In a server configured for fail over availability redundant adapters spanning multiple PHB chips could enable the system to recover transparently without partition los...

Page 117: ...ly removed from L3 cache memory decreasing the chances of encountering multi bit memory errors 4 2 4 PCI Error Recovery IBM estimates that PCI adapters can account for a significant portion of the har...

Page 118: ...is to design and provide the most efficient system service environment that incorporates Easy access to service components On demand service education An automated guided repair strategy that uses co...

Page 119: ...range Using an architected operating system interface the Service Processor notifies the operating system of potential environmental related problems for example air conditioning and air circulation...

Page 120: ...tion circuitry that is used to detect erroneous hardware operations Error checking hardware ranges from parity error detection coupled with processor instruction retry and bus retry to ECC correction...

Page 121: ...event exceeded a pre determined threshold or was unrecoverable Based upon the isolation analysis recoverable error threshold counts may be incremented No specific service action could be necessary whe...

Page 122: ...systems can monitor critical system components during run time and they can take corrective actions when recoverable faults occur IBMs hardware error check architecture provides the ability to report...

Page 123: ...em running on the Hardware Management Console RMC provides a secure transport mechanism across the LAN interface between the operating system and the Hardware Management Console and is used by the ope...

Page 124: ...WER6 processor based system has detected diagnosed and reported an error to an appropriate aggregation point it then takes steps to notify the customer and if necessary the IBM Support Organization De...

Page 125: ...replace parts requiring service POWER6 processor based systems utilize a combination of visual cues and guided maintenance procedures to ensure that the identified part is replaced correctly every ti...

Page 126: ...for concurrent application and activation Administrators can install and activate many firmware patches without cycling power or rebooting the server The new firmware image is loaded on the HMC using...

Page 127: ...new part Repair and verify procedures are designed to be used both by service representative providers who are familiar with the task at hand and those who are not On Demand Education content is plac...

Page 128: ...error recovery Y Y Limited1 Limited PCI PCI bridge extended error handling Y Y N N Redundant RIO Link Y Y Y Y PCI card hot swap Y Y Y1 Y Dynamic SP failover at runtime Y Y N N Memory sparing with CoD...

Page 129: ...Hot plug fans power supplies Y Y Y Y Extended error data collection Y Y Y Y SP call home on non HMC configurations Y Y Y Y I O drawer redundant connections Y Y Y Y I O drawer hot add and concurrent re...

Page 130: ...s complete system and partition management from the HMC The service processor uses two Ethernet 10 100 Mbps ports Both Ethernet ports are only visible to the service processor and can be used to attac...

Page 131: ...erver 4 5 3 Electronic Service Agent Electronic Service Agent and the IBM Electronic Services Web portal comprise the IBM Electronic Service solution IBM Electronic Service Agent is a no charge tool t...

Page 132: ...tion and error logs are automatically uploaded to the IBM support Center in conjunction with the service request customers are not required to find and send system information decreasing the risk of m...

Page 133: ...including the exchanging of parts configuring connectivity and managing dumps 4 5 5 Hardware user interfaces In addition you can use the Manage Serviceable Events task to initiate service functions on...

Page 134: ...l user interface GUI to their AIX or Linux systems To use the graphics terminal plug the graphics adapter into a PCI slot in the back of the server You can connect a standard monitor keyboard and mous...

Page 135: ...ck which cannot be concurrently activated are deferred Figure 4 9 shows the system firmware file naming convention Figure 4 9 firmware file naming convention Here is one example Example 4 1 01EM310_02...

Page 136: ...costs IBM Director provide below benefits An easy to use integrated suite of tools with consistent look and feel and single point of management simplifies IT tasks Automated proactive capabilities tha...

Page 137: ...s for remote parallel network installation remote hardware control distributed command execution file collection and distribution cluster wide monitoring capabilities and integration with High Perform...

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Page 140: ...ems support p IBM System Planning Tool http www ibm com systems support tools systemplanningtool Fix Central AIX operating system maintenance packages downloads http www ibm com eserver support fixes...

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Page 142: ...s a comprehensive guide covering the IBM System p 570 UNIX server The goal of this paper is to open the doors to the innovative IBM System p 570 It introduces major hardware offerings and discusses th...

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