Questions tagged [ibm-xseries]

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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Can IBM System x3650 passthrough SAS?

I am looking at the specs and manual for the IBM System x3650. According to the specs a ServeRAID-8k-l hardware RAID comes standard, but there's an option to upgrade to ServeRAID-8k. If I understand this correctly, this system will always have…
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IBM Xseries 3400 only working while power button holding pressed

I have an IBM xSeries x3400 Intel Xeon server which only works while someone holds in the power button. My server stopped working and I sent it to IBM Service. After a few hours they told me I could backup my data. When I asked how they managed to…
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IBM x3400 upgrading to 2 x CPU Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5430

I'm trying to install two Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5430 CPUs in an IBM x3400 with an IBM M97IP motherboard. When I turn the power on, it takes approx. 3 sec. then the fan stops and nothing happens. After approx. 10 sec. an LED on the motherboard…
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Installing windows server standard 2008 32bit in IBM System X-3620

Can anyone explain me how to install windows server standard 2008 32bit with sata/sas 6gb/s hdd in IBM System X-3620. During the installation, the os cannot detect the drive. I had even tried with IBM server guide utility but 2008 standard edition…
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"Invalid product key" for Windows SBS 2011 on IBM x3200 M3?

We are trying to install Windows SBS 2011 (Czech) on the new IBM x3200 M3 machine. The ServerGuide v9.0 finished correctly and asked for the Windows SBS instalation DVD (OEM). After asking the usual things (language, keyboard, time, ... -- passes…
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IBM x3500 Server managament/monitoring tool

I took over monitoring an older IBM x3500 7977 server and i don't have much knowledge of IBM servers. I'm looking for the equivalent of Dell Server Administrator from IBM, just to monitor and alert on hardware failures, envronmental indicators…
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IBM X3200 M2 Fan running at full speed? Noisy

One of the FANs (the one cooling the hard drives I think) in our IBM X3200 M2 started running at full speed and make a loud noise. Anyone encountered this problem and know how to fix this?
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How to disable the built-in RAID in x3650 M3?

We have an IBM server x3650 M3, and I'm trying to install Linux without using HW RAID (ServeRAID), as per cluster storage software vendor requirements. The problem is that the server exposes the physical drives only to WebBios interface, and Linux…
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Server error after restart "memory or battery problem"

Our IBM server gives an error saying "memory or battery problem has been detected adapter has recovered but cached data was lost" Please press any key to continue." and to press the key we have to travel miles to the data center.Is there any way to…
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Upgrade CPU for IBM xSeries 346 with VT-X?

Are there any socket Xeon 603 or 604 CPU's that support VT-X that I can replace the stock one with?
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Problems booting an IBM Server with ServerRaid 4Lx

I have an IBM server xSeries 205 with a ServeRaid 4Lx on it that after a power faliure refused to boot. it presented a error message during ServerRaid BIOS boot phase stating: ServeRAID? ,Slot1, Status: Controller register test failed, test number…
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Installing Windows XP on an IBM x335 server

Is there a way to install Windows XP on an IBM x335 server? When I boot from CD-ROM with the Windows XP installation disk, the screen is just blank. Initial research indicates this may be due to the SCSI controller. I'll update as I find out…
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Need help finding a SAS HBA controller for an IBM LTO 4 Tape Drive

I've got an older IBM x3200 M2 Server (MT: 4368) and I recently acquired a used internal IBM LTO 4 tape drive (FRU: 45E1125). The back of the tape drive requires an Internal SAS 29 pin connector (SFF-8482) . I'm trying to purchase a PCIe SAS HBA…
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Adding sata disk w/o controller to IBM X3400 M3

We have IBM X3400 M3 with SAS controller and and two disk with raid 1. We need extra space without protection. I try to add standart SATA disk to server. It has two SATA port on mainboard. When I connect SATA disk, it can't boot from SAS controller,…
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How to enable/use x3550 m4 onboard sata connector?

I have a X3550 M4 with a faulty M1115 raid card (tested faulty on a different machine), so I removed it. I noticed there is a mini-sas port on the motherboard with letters SATA 0-3 underneath. Also I see in the bios setup there is an option for…
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