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IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

IBM System x3850 X5
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Contents ix
8.5.4 HX5 2-node UEFI settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
8.5.5 HX5 with MAX5 attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
8.5.6 Operating system-specific settings in UEFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
8.6 Creating an HX5 scalable complex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
8.6.1 Troubleshooting HX5 problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
8.7 Operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
8.7.1 Operating system installation media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
8.7.2 VMware ESXi on a USB key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
8.7.3 Installing ESX 4.1 or ESXi 4.1 Installable onto HX5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
8.7.4 Windows installation tips and settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
8.7.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation tips and settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
8.7.6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation tips and settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
8.7.7 Downloads and fixes for HX5 and MAX5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
8.7.8 SAN storage reference and considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
8.8 Failure detection and recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
8.8.1 Tools to aid hardware troubleshooting for the HX5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
8.8.2 Reinserting the Speed Burst card for extended outages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
8.8.3 Effects of power loss on HX5 2-node or MAX5 configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Chapter 9. Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
9.2 Integrated Management Module (IMM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
9.2.1 IMM out-of-band configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
9.2.2 IMM in-band configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
9.2.3 Updating firmware using the IMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
9.3 Advanced Management Module (AMM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
9.3.1 Accessing the Advanced Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
9.3.2 Service Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
9.3.3 Updating firmware using the AMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
9.4 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
9.4.1 Accessing the Remote Control feature on the x3690 X5 and the x3850 X5. . . . 462
9.4.2 Accessing the Remote Control feature for the HX5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
9.5 IBM Systems Director 6.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
9.5.1 Discovering the IMM of a single-node x3690 X5 or x3850 X5 out-of-band via IBM
Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
9.5.2 Discovering a 2-node x3850 X5 via IBM Systems Director 6.2.x . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
9.5.3 Discovering a single-node HX5 via IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
9.5.4 Discovering a 2-node HX5 via IBM Systems Director 6.2.x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
9.5.5 Service and Support Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
9.5.6 Performing tasks against a 2-node system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
9.6 IBM Electronic Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
9.7 Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
9.7.1 Using ASU to configure settings in IMM-based servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
9.7.2 Common problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
9.7.3 Command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
9.8 IBM ServerGuide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
9.9 IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
9.10 Firmware update tools and methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
9.10.1 Configuring UEFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
9.10.2 Requirements for updating scalable systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
9.10.3 IBM Systems Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
9.11 UpdateXpress System Pack Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
9.12 Bootable Media Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

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IBM System x3850 X5 Specifications

General IconGeneral
Processor CoresUp to 10 cores per processor
ChipsetIntel 7500
Hard Drive InterfaceSAS/SATA
ProcessorIntel Xeon E7-4800 series, Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Memory Slots64 DIMM slots
StorageUp to 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
RAID SupportRAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network InterfaceIntegrated Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System SupportMicrosoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Form Factor4U Rack

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