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Chapter 7. Management

In the information technology sector, server systems management has received greater focus

over recent years. The ability to maintain and manage systems efficiently is essential to

business IT operations. in this chapter, we briefly describe the embedded hardware and

external applications that are available to manage and maintain the X6 systems. Several of

these are also demonstrated.

This chapter contains the following topics:

򐂰 7.1, “Introduction” on page 200

򐂰 7.2, “Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)” on page 201

򐂰 7.3, “Remote control” on page 205

򐂰 7.4, “IBM Systems Director” on page 207

򐂰 7.5, “Upward Integration Modules” on page 217

򐂰 7.6, “Advanced Settings Utility” on page 221

򐂰 7.7, “MegaRAID Storage Manager” on page 224

򐂰 7.8, “IBM Electronic Services” on page 227

򐂰 7.9, “Serial over LAN” on page 228

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General

Chipset	Intel C602J
Network Controller	Integrated quad-port Gigabit Ethernet
Processor	Up to four Intel Xeon E7-4800 v2 series processors or Intel Xeon E7-8800 v2 series processors
Memory	Up to 6 TB of DDR3 ECC Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) or Load-Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs)
Form Factor	4U rack server
Storage	Up to 24x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
Expansion Slots	Up to 11 PCIe 3.0 slots
Power Supply	Up to four 1400W or 900W hot-swap power supplies
Memory Type	DDR3 RDIMM/LRDIMM
Storage Controller	ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA controller
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware