AMX Rack Rail Kit MMS Servers Specifications download pdf (Page 4)

Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, 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 IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA).

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on

page vii.

1 2 3 4 5 ... 142

Redpaper 1
October 2008 3
First Edition (October 2008) 4
Contents 5
Contents v 7
Trademarks 10
Become a published author 12
Comments welcome 13
General description 15
1.1 System specifications 17
1.2 Physical package 17
1.3 System features 18
1.3.2 Memory features 20
1.3.4 I/O drawers 22
Front Rear 24
1.4 System racks 26
Physical specifications 28
Client responsibilities 28
1.4.5 Rack-mounting rules 31
1.4.6 Useful rack additions 32
1.4.7 OEM rack 33
Architecture and technical 37
2.1 The POWER6 processor 38
Figure 2-2 POWER6 processor 39
2.1.1 Decimal floating point 40
2.3 Processor cards 43
2.3.2 Processor clock rate 44
2.4 Memory subsystem 45
2.4.4 OEM memory 48
2.5 System buses 49
2.5.2 Service processor bus 50
2.6 Internal I/O subsystem 51
2.6.1 System ports 52
POWER6 chip 56
2.8 PCI adapters 57
2.8.1 LAN adapters 58
2.8.2 SCSI and SAS adapters 58
2.8.3 iSCSI 59
IBM iSCSI adapters 60
2.8.4 Fibre Channel adapter 61
2.8.5 Graphic accelerators 61
2.9 Internal storage 62
2.9.2 Split backplane 63
2.9.3 Internal media devices 63
2.10 External I/O subsystems 64
7311 Model D11 features 65
PCI-X Bridge 66
PCI-X slots 67
SPCN cabling examples 68
YO Cable 71
IBM AIX 5L 77
IBM AIX V6.1 77
Linux for System p systems 78
2.13 Service information 79
2.14 System firmware 81
System firmware download site 82
2.14.1 Service processor 84
System Management Services 86
Open Firmware 87
Virtualization 89
3.1 POWER Hypervisor 90
Virtual SCSI 91
Virtual Ethernet 91
Virtual (TTY) console 91
3.2 Logical partitioning 92
3.2.3 Processing mode 93
Dedicated mode 94
Shared dedicated mode 94
Shared mode 94
3.3 PowerVM 95
Shared Ethernet Adapter 96
Chapter 3. Virtualization 83 97
3.3.3 PowerVM Lx86 99
Supported Operating Systems 100
Chapter 3. Virtualization 87 101
Chapter 3. Virtualization 89 103
3.4 System Planning Tool 105
Continuous availability and 107
Component failure rates 108
4.2 Availability 109
Persistent deallocation 110
Memory protection 113
Memory page deallocation 114
Memory control hierarchy 114
Memory deconfiguration 115
L2 Array Protection 116
4.2.4 PCI Error Recovery 117
4.3 Serviceability 118
4.3.1 Detecting errors 119
Error checkers 120
Fault Isolation Registers 120
4.3.2 Diagnosing problems 121
Boot-time 122
Device drivers 122
4.3.3 Reporting problems 123
Extended Error Data (EED) 124
System dump handling 124
Customer notify 124
Call home 124
Guiding light LEDs 125
The operator panel 125
Concurrent maintenance 126
Blind-swap PCI adapters 126
Firmware updates 126
Repair and verify 127
4.5 Manageability 130
Graphics terminal 134
Example 4-1 135
4.6 Cluster solution 136
Related publications 139
Online resources 140
How to get Redbooks 140
Help from IBM 140

Comments to this Manuals

No comments

AMX Rack Rail Kit MMS Servers Specifications Page 4

Comments to this Manuals

Related products and manuals for Servers AMX Rack Rail Kit MMS Servers