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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windows 2008 r2 - unexpected reboot

We have 3 servers which have rebooted unexpectedly all within 3 days of each other (each one approximately 24 hrs after the last one). In each case what we are seeing is absolutely no memory dump, crash dump, or notification in the Event logs…
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What will be the ill effects of turning off and on server daily

I have IBM server x 3850 M2 with remote system adapter. It has 128GB RAM and 4 SAS drives Its basically for my home labs , developmenet and testing I think that if i make it on 24 x 7 then i will be wasting power as i only use it when i come home or…
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Can you install windows 7 on an IBM x3250 M4 server?

We are running an experiment on our available x3250 M4 Server for the purpose of trying to reach a client's requirement. Basically they want Windows 7 running on the server. I want to know if this is possible(without the use of VMWare of course)…
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IBM xSeries 226 RAID and windows server 2003 setup

I have an IBM xSeries 226 server and I am trying to set up windows 2003 from its original cd. servers specifications are 1 cpu 4 Gb ram 72X3 scsi disks. I dont know anything about servers this is my first try. I have some cd's like ServeRaid 7.10b…
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Using a NAS as a vSphere datastore

I have an IBM server x3850 M2. It has SAS drives that are too small for all of my Virtual Machines. I also have an entry level Netgear ReadyNAS unit. Can I use this as a datastore, and what kind of performance issues will I have?
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How can I upgrade the hard drive in an old IBM System X3250 M4 server?

I have an old server that I bought second-hand: IBM System X3250 M4 E3-1270v2. It came with a 256GB HDD. I would like to upgrade this to a 1TB SSD. I found this IBM support page for hard-drive accessories, and this page with product info. Open bay…
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Which will have more faster for backups between usb drive on vm or NAS drive

I have IBM server with SAS drives and ESXi Server with many VM (not production). Now for backups of VM i have two options But NAS drive and use that on network Get USB drive , attach to FreeNAS VM on Esxi server and then backup there I want to…
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My IBM Xseries 305 Server won't boot from DVD, why?

I switched the boot order via to the IBM bios so it's first thing to try is booting from a CD. This doesn't work... it contniues to boot via to the hard drive. I've tried messing with it for about two hours now and I'm fed up with IBM... can anyone…
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