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IBM System X family: IBM System x rack, BladeCenter and tower servers

Highlights

IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® servers help to deliver a dynamic infrastructure that provides leadership quality and service that you can trust, as well as:

– Reduces operating costs with higher performance, energy efficiency, simplified management, virtualization and increased utilization

– Manages present and future risk in challenging economic conditions with best-in-class RAS and future-proof IT

– Improves service with an end-to-end approach to systems management

● The new generation of System x and BladeCenter servers delivers business value and reduces costs for clients through industry-leading scalability, virtualization and management capabilities

Recent economic conditions have changed the way that business operates. To adapt demands innovative ideas and solutions. At the same time, the world is becoming smarter—more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Businesses have to manage increasingly large data pools and a customer base with higher expectations, without spending more on IT. IBM delivers solutions—smarter systems built for a smarter planet to help you reduce costs and improve service while still managing risk.

World Wide Web IBM System x ibm.com/systems/x

IBM eX5 enterprise systems ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/ex5/index.html

IBM BladeCenter ibm.com/systems/bladecenter

IBM 1- and 2-socket Rack and Tower Servers ibm.com/systems/x86/rackandtower

IBM System Cluster 1350 ibm.com/systems/clusters/

IBM Systems Director ibm.com/systems/management/director

IBM System x iDataPlex ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/idataplex/

IBM System Storage ibm.com/systems/storage/

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ESXi 5 Guests will not boot

I have a problem with Guests not booting under VMWare ESXi 5.0 on my IBM x3550M3 server. Note: Investigation eventually determined that problem was with the VMware client on a Lenovo Edge laptop, the only Windows box available in a Linux IT…
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Memory DIMM slot install order

Building my first server and have a small question that I'm unsure of! We've purchased an X3650 M3 server, with 2 processors and 8 DIMMS of memory. Now I am unsure of the memory installation for 2 processors. The server has 2 banks of memory slots,…
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Can't get an IBM xSeries 345 server to load Windows Server 2003 using ServerGuide utility

I have a client that has an IBM xSeries 345 eServer. Per the IBM support website, I have downloaded the ServerGuide Setup 7.4.17 installation ISO and burned a bootable CD. The CD boots fine and loads the utility. I walk through the following…
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ESXi 6.5 - RAID - Lenovo System x3650 - CIM Provider

Background: We have a new Lenovo System x3650 Type 8871 server. Specs below: Lenovo System x x3650 M5 8871EMG 2U Rack Server 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 Dodeca-core (12 Core) 2.20 GHz - 2 Processor Support - 16 GB Standard/768 GB TruDDR4 Maximum…
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Hardware/BIOS - IBM x3200 m2

When I turn on my machine, the display is not throwing any output to it. The fans are running fine. The LED lights indicate no error, ' Only two LED's are blinking "Mini-BMCheartbeat LED" and "Standby power LED" The article mentions about the…
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Straight-forward to Virtualise with XEN or KVM on IBM Server System x3650 M4 791562G?

I want to built a virtualised Server Environment using XEN or KVM. The virtual machines should be purely debian systems - so XEN or KVM should be a sane choice. Now while buying servers, I am confronted with the fact, that the vendors obviously only…
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What use is a dummy heat sink assembly?

Cleaning out our server room, we found two of these: IBM eServer xSeries dummy heatsink assembly I can't find any documentation on what they were used for (presumably during shipping or for a multi-socket Xeon board with only 1 CPU installed); can…
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IBM System x3850 M2 Ubuntu Server Install

I just purchased two second-hand IBM System x3850 M2 rack servers, and I am a real noob to the subject. As such, I cannot tell if there is a major difference between x3850 M2 and x3850 X5. If there isn't, then a lot of my research will be a lot…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - Keyboard isn't recognized on login screen, but mouse does

Problem Backgroud: Our company has an IBM System X3200 M3 server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with two WS Caviar Black 1TB HD in RAID 1. Recently we had a power failure that corrupted the system boot, and since the previous IT guy…
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Replacing a Self encrypting Hard Drive in an IBM xseries server raid

I have a failed drive in a RAID 5 array in an IBM x3650, Machine Type 7945. The RAID is composed entirely of original IBM SED SAS drives, 300GB ea. Unfortunately I am the purchasing Tech, not the one who goes to the server (just started this week)…
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IBM x3650 M3: can an installed vanilla vSphere 5.1u1 be replaced with "vSphere enhanced for IBM"?

Some 4 years ago we got the free vSphere Hypervison 5.0 (ESXi) directly from the VMWare for installation on a donated IBM x3650 M3 server. Basically, we are novices in both IBM server management as well as vSphere, but somehow we managed to install…
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IBM xSeries 306 CPU Speed

I have an IBM xSeries 306. The system has been flawless until a week ago. It's a Pentium 4 Dual Core CPU. The CPU speed is 3.20 gHz. Now, it shows 4.26 gHz or 2.16 gHz when the POST screen comes up. Nothing in the BIOS is user configurable for…
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Server memory configuration after upgrade

I have an IBM 346 server that can support up to 16GB of memory. It previously had 8GB installed (8x 1GB slots) and was working fine. I have upgraded it to 16GB using 8x 2GB slots. However now when the server starts now there is a beeping error code…
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M1015 pass-through and hot-swap in Linux with md raid (IBM x3620)

I'm setting up a small, but hopefully durable server for a student community, and the hardware is an IBM x3620 M3 with a builtin M1015 RAID card. To make the setup future proof and avoid vendor lock-in as much as possible, I want to use software…
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What do these IPMI System Event Logs mean?

I'm currently trying to troubleshoot what seem to be hardware issues with a x3650 m3 machine. Using IPMItools, I'm reading recurring assertion events from sensor type: 0F, sensor no: B5 that repeat the following: Firmware Progress C2 00 FF Firmware…
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