Document Outline

• Front cover
• Contents
• Notices
  • Trademarks
• Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • Comments welcome
• Chapter 1. Technical description
  • 1.1 The x440 product line
  • 1.2 System partitioning
  • 1.3 IBM XA-32 chipset
  • 1.4 Processors
    • 1.4.1 Intel Xeon Processor MP
    • 1.4.2 Intel Xeon Processor DP
  • 1.5 SMP Expansion Module
  • 1.6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache
  • 1.7 System memory
  • 1.8 PCI subsystem
  • 1.9 Redundancy
  • 1.10 Light Path Diagnostics
  • 1.11 Remote Supervisor Adapter
  • 1.12 Operating system support
  • 1.13 IBM Director
• Chapter 2. Positioning
  • 2.1 xSeries 440 application solutions
    • 2.1.1 Server consolidation
    • 2.1.2 Enterprise applications
    • 2.1.3 Infrastructure applications
    • 2.1.4 Clustering
  • 2.2 Why choose the x440
    • 2.2.1 IBM XA-32 chipset
    • 2.2.2 Intel Xeon MP and DP processors
    • 2.2.3 XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache
    • 2.2.4 High-performance memory subsystem
    • 2.2.5 Active PCI-X
    • 2.2.6 XpandOnDemand scalability
    • 2.2.7 System Partition Manager
  • 2.3 The benefits of system partitioning
  • 2.4 Server consolidation
    • 2.4.1 Types of server consolidation
    • 2.4.2 Why consolidate servers
    • 2.4.3 Benefits from server consolidation
• Chapter 3. Planning
  • 3.1 System hardware
    • 3.1.1 Processors
    • 3.1.2 Memory
    • 3.1.3 PCI slot configuration
    • 3.1.4 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller
  • 3.2 Cabling and connectivity
    • 3.2.1 SMP Expansion Module connectivity
    • 3.2.2 Remote Supervisor Adapter connectivity
    • 3.2.3 Remote Expansion Enclosure
    • 3.2.4 Serial connections
  • 3.3 Storage considerations
    • 3.3.1 xSeries storage solutions
    • 3.3.2 Disk subsystem performance
    • 3.3.3 Tape backup
  • 3.4 Server partitioning and consolidation
  • 3.5 Operating system considerations
    • 3.5.1 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
    • 3.5.2 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition
    • 3.5.3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
    • 3.5.4 Microsoft Windows .NET Server
    • 3.5.5 Novell NetWare
    • 3.5.6 Red Hat/SuSE Linux
    • 3.5.7 VMware ESX Server
  • 3.6 Application considerations
    • 3.6.1 Scalability and performance considerations
    • 3.6.2 SMP and server types
  • 3.7 Rack installation
  • 3.8 Power considerations
  • 3.9 Solution Assurance Review
• Chapter 4. Installation
  • 4.1 System BIOS settings
    • 4.1.1 Updating BIOS and firmware
    • 4.1.2 Enabling memory mirroring
    • 4.1.3 Enabling Hyper-Threading
  • 4.2 Device drivers
  • 4.3 Operating system installation
    • 4.3.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server
    • 4.3.2 Red Hat Linux installation
    • 4.3.3 NetWare installation
    • 4.3.4 VMware ESX Server
  • 4.4 Additional Information
• Chapter 5. Management
  • 5.1 Active PCI Manager
    • 5.1.1 Using Active PCI Manager
    • 5.1.2 Adding adapters to the system
    • 5.1.3 Analyzing an existing configuration
  • 5.2 System Partition Manager
  • 5.3 Process Control
    • 5.3.1 Process alias rules
    • 5.3.2 Process execution rules
    • 5.3.3 Group process execution rules
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Related publications
  • IBM Redbooks
  • Referenced Web sites
  • How to get IBM Redbooks
    • IBM Redbooks collections
• Index
• Back cover