10 IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 Planning and Implementation Guide
1.7 Services offerings
The X6 systems fit into the services offerings that are already available from IBM Global
Technology Services® for System x and BladeCenter. More information about these services
is available at the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/services/gts/systemxbcis.html
In addition to the existing offerings for asset management, information infrastructure, service
management, security, virtualization, and consolidation, and business and collaborative
solutions; IBM Systems Lab Services and Training has six offerings specifically for X6:
Virtualization Enablement
Database Enablement
Enterprise Application Enablement
Migration Study
Virtualization Health Check
Rapid! Migration Tool
IBM Systems Lab Services and Training is a worldwide services team of deeply skilled,
experienced consultants and instructors who assist clients in the acceleration of adopting new
IBM products and offerings, maximizing the performance of their IBM Systems and solutions,
and enabling operational excellence through the transfer of skills and knowledge to the
clients' staffs. The services offerings are designed around having the flexibility to be
customized to meet your needs and can provide preconfigured services, custom services,
expert skills transfer, off-the-shelf training, and online/classroom courses for X6.
For more information, send an email to this address:
mailto:stgls@us.ibm.com
Also, more information is available at the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
1.8 What this book contains
In this book, readers get a general understanding of X6 technology, which sets it apart from
previous models, and the architecture that makes up this product line. This book is broken
down into several chapters:
The first three chapters give an in-depth look at the X6 hardware and architecture:
Chapter 1: A high-level overview of X6 and its target workloads/markets
Chapter 2: New technology in X6
Chapter 3: An in-depth look at key components, such as memory, CPU, storage, and I/O
The last four chapters describe preparing and implementing the X6 server. We describe
power and cooling considerations, operating installations, systems management, and
firmware update tools:
Chapter 4: Rack, power, and cooling considerations for X6.
Chapter 5: Preparing the X6 hardware for use.
Chapter 6: Operating system installation guidelines.
Chapter 7: How to manage your X6 hardware.
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