Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Technical description -- 1.1 The x440 product line -- 1.2 System partitioning -- 1.3 IBM XA-32 chipset -- 1.4 Processors -- 1.4.1 Intel Xeon Processor MP -- 1.4.2 Intel Xeon Processor DP -- 1.5 SMP Expansion Module -- 1.6 IBM XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache -- 1.7 System memory -- 1.8 PCI subsystem -- 1.9 Redundancy -- 1.10 Light Path Diagnostics -- 1.11 Remote Supervisor Adapter -- 1.12 Operating system support -- 1.13 IBM Director -- Chapter 2. Positioning -- 2.1 xSeries 440 application solutions -- 2.1.1 Server consolidation -- 2.1.2 Enterprise applications -- 2.1.3 Infrastructure applications -- 2.1.4 Clustering -- 2.2 Why choose the x440 -- 2.2.1 IBM XA-32 chipset -- 2.2.2 Intel Xeon MP and DP processors -- 2.2.3 XceL4 Server Accelerator Cache -- 2.2.4 High-performance memory subsystem -- 2.2.5 Active PCI-X -- 2.2.6 XpandOnDemand scalability -- 2.2.7 System Partition Manager -- 2.3 The benefits of system partitioning -- 2.4 Server consolidation -- 2.4.1 Types of server consolidation -- 2.4.2 Why consolidate servers -- 2.4.3 Benefits from server consolidation -- Chapter 3. Planning -- 3.1 System hardware -- 3.1.1 Processors -- 3.1.2 Memory -- 3.1.3 PCI slot configuration -- 3.1.4 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller -- 3.2 Cabling and connectivity -- 3.2.1 SMP Expansion Module connectivity -- 3.2.2 Remote Supervisor Adapter connectivity -- 3.2.3 Remote Expansion Enclosure -- 3.2.4 Serial connections -- 3.3 Storage considerations -- 3.3.1 xSeries storage solutions -- 3.3.2 Disk subsystem performance -- 3.3.3 Tape backup -- 3.4 Server partitioning and consolidation -- 3.5 Operating system considerations -- 3.5.1 Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

3.5.2 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition -- 3.5.3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server -- 3.5.4 Microsoft Windows .NET Server -- 3.5.5 Novell NetWare -- 3.5.6 Red Hat/SuSE Linux -- 3.5.7 VMware ESX Server -- 3.6 Application considerations -- 3.6.1 Scalability and performance considerations -- 3.6.2 SMP and server types -- 3.7 Rack installation -- 3.8 Power considerations -- 3.9 Solution Assurance Review -- Chapter 4. Installation -- 4.1 System BIOS settings -- 4.1.1 Updating BIOS and firmware -- 4.1.2 Enabling memory mirroring -- 4.1.3 Enabling Hyper-Threading -- 4.2 Device drivers -- 4.3 Operating system installation -- 4.3.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server -- 4.3.2 Red Hat Linux installation -- 4.3.3 NetWare installation -- 4.3.4 VMware ESX Server -- 4.4 Additional Information -- Chapter 5. Management -- 5.1 Active PCI Manager -- 5.1.1 Using Active PCI Manager -- 5.1.2 Adding adapters to the system -- 5.1.3 Analyzing an existing configuration -- 5.2 System Partition Manager -- 5.3 Process Control -- 5.3.1 Process alias rules -- 5.3.2 Process execution rules -- 5.3.3 Group process execution rules -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Referenced Web sites -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- IBM Redbooks collections -- Index -- Back cover.