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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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IBM server x3550 M Hard Disk Issue

Recently, I've bought this used system. I've purchased two HDD 74 GB and 146GB. When the system loads, in the BIOS it shows both hard disk detected. While CENTos 6.6 installation it is showing 74GB HDD only. 146GB is totally missing from the DISK.…
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Server disk failure predicted in raid1 array

I have a IBM 3650X M3 with 2 disks in a raid1 array. One of them is in "failure predicted" state. I have two question about this case: Should I trust it and change a working disk? How the system can predict a failure? How to change a working disk?…
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IBM x3690 x5 Light Path Diagnostic Circle of Death Mainboard Failure?

I have serious trouble with a x3690. After moving it to a new server rack it won't startup. After connecting the server to power supply the Light Path Diagnostic LEDs turn wheels. The normal behaviour would be that the power button blinks fast (4…
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IBM X3850 does not boot from internal USB by default unless startup boot menu is visited

I'm running Vmware ESXI from the internal USB. No matter how many times I persist the boot order so that the server boots from the internal USB, the server starts up with a blinking line cursor and does nothing. However if during the preboot I…
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Getting an LSI SAS1064e to recognise new drives

I have an IBM x3200 M3 server running SBS2011. This server has an LSI SAS1063e controller (the basic BR10il RAID controller that comes with that system). Already existing was a RAID1 array of two 500GB SAS drives. I have inserted two 2TB WD Red…
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IBM Server sees half of the original RAM

We have a IBM XSeries 206M server. There are 2 2GB IBM RAM's which are suitable with the server. Normally we expect that server should see 4GB of RAM. But It works with 2 GB only. So we thought that one of the RAM's are probably has a problem. And…
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Resert IBM system x3650 fault led

I got OVERSPEC, PS1 and PS2 fault led on my x3650. I tried to replace one PS but nothing changes. The power supplyp seems to work properly and it is very strange to broke both PS at the same time. I tried to reset the system log, reboot, but these…
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IBM x360 DVD drive?

My x360 server has only a CD drive in it. I wish to upgrade and install a DVD drive, so it is easier for me to install software without sharing my workstation DVD drive all the time. According to IBM ServerProven Compatibility, only those two are…
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IBM ServeRAID 2 channels SCSI controller compatible with IBM x366 server which use SAS onboard?

I own an IBM x360 server in which I have an IBM ServeRAID 2 channels SCSI controller for which I use the two channels. Channel 1: the server's HDD. Channel 2: IBM EXP300 HDD Enclosure. Will this IBM ServeRAID SCSI controller work and allow me to…
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IBM System X M4 Series Servers Oracle Linux Support

Is Oracle Linux runnable/compatible with the M4 Series of the IBM System X Servers? In their compatibility website, most compatible machines listed are those from Dell and HP..there are IBM system x..but all are of older models.. (This is the link…
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IBM x3200 M3 - RAM compatibility

I've got my hands on a IBM x3200 M3 server. ESXi 5.1 is installed on it and more RAM would be much needed since there's only 2 GB installed for the moment. Does anyone know how it's working with RAM modules for hardware like this. I know the manual…
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x3250 M4 reboots when you remove a usb device like keyboard or mouse

Following the installation of Windows 7 in our test server IBM x3250 m4,(Can you install windows 7 on an IBM x3250 M4 server?), the server reboots everytime a usb device is removed..if it is attached nothing happens but when you remove it will…
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Enabling Ethernet X3530 M4

I have IBM X3530 M4, and it appears to have 4 ethernet ports, but under Ubuntu just 2 ethernet ports are enabled. How can I enable the other two ethernet ports?
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Error messages in x3550 related to hard drives not detected at bios level

I have an IBM x3550 when I start it I get the following messages: no logical drives found no int 13 drives to support bios not installed I go into diagnostics and I noticed that SCSI is disabled. However there is seemingly no way to enable it…
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my ibm x3550 server can't find the hard drives

I recently purchased a used ibm x3550 server with two 2.5" SAS hard drives included. When I boot the server it doesn't recognise them. I get into the bios and I can't see them there. I try to install windows and it doesn't show any hard drive. When…
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