Ibm Redpaper 520Q Users Manual GST, Inc. System P, P5, PSeries, RS/6000, I, I5, ISeries, AS/400, OpenPower And TotalStorage Experts.

2015-02-02

• red9131-52a.pdf
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Notices
    • Trademarks
  • Preface
    • The team that wrote this Redpaper
    • Become a published author
    • Comments welcome
  • Chapter 1. General description
    • 1.1 System specifications
    • 1.2 Physical package
      • 1.2.1 Deskside model
      • 1.2.2 Rack-mount model
    • 1.3 Minimum and optional features
      • 1.3.1 Processor features
      • 1.3.2 Memory features
      • 1.3.3 Disk and media features
      • 1.3.4 USB diskette drive
      • 1.3.5 I/O drawers
      • 1.3.6 Hardware Management Console models
    • 1.4 Express Product Offerings
      • 1.4.1 Express Product Offerings requirements
      • 1.4.2 Configurator starting points for Express Product Offerings
    • 1.5 System racks
      • 1.5.1 IBM 7014 Model T00 rack
      • 1.5.2 IBM 7014 Model T42 rack
      • 1.5.3 IBM 7014 Model S11 rack
      • 1.5.4 IBM 7014 Model S25 rack
      • 1.5.5 S11 rack and S25 rack considerations
      • 1.5.6 The ac power distribution unit and rack content
      • 1.5.7 Rack-mounting rules
      • 1.5.8 Additional options for the rack
      • 1.5.9 OEM rack
  • Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
    • 2.1 The POWER5+ processor
    • 2.2 Processor and cache
      • 2.2.1 POWER5+ single-core module
      • 2.2.2 The p5-520 POWER5+ dual-core module
      • 2.2.3 The p5-520Q quad-core module
      • 2.2.4 Available processor speeds
    • 2.3 Memory subsystem
      • 2.3.1 Memory placement rules
      • 2.3.2 OEM memory
      • 2.3.3 Memory throughput
    • 2.4 I/O buses
    • 2.5 Internal I/O subsystem
    • 2.6 64-bit and 32-bit adapters
      • 2.6.1 LAN adapters
      • 2.6.2 SCSI adapters
      • 2.6.3 Integrated RAID options
      • 2.6.4 iSCSI
      • 2.6.5 Fibre Channel adapter
      • 2.6.6 Graphic accelerators
      • 2.6.7 InfiniBand Host Channel adapter
      • 2.6.8 Asynchronous PCI-X adapters
      • 2.6.9 PCI-X Cryptographic Coprocessor
      • 2.6.10 Additional support for PCI-X adapters you own
      • 2.6.11 Internal system ports
      • 2.6.12 Ethernet ports
    • 2.7 Internal storage
      • 2.7.1 Internal media devices
      • 2.7.2 Internal hot-swappable SCSI disks
    • 2.8 External I/O subsystem
      • 2.8.1 I/O drawers
      • 2.8.2 7311 I/O drawer RIO-2 cabling
      • 2.8.3 7311 Model D20 I/O drawer SPCN cabling
    • 2.9 External disk subsystems
      • 2.9.1 IBM TotalStorage EXP24 Expandable Storage
      • 2.9.2 IBM System Storage N3000 and N5000
      • 2.9.3 IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Series
      • 2.9.4 IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 Series
    • 2.10 Logical partitioning
      • 2.10.1 Dynamic logical partitioning
    • 2.11 Virtualization
      • 2.11.1 POWER Hypervisor
    • 2.12 Advanced POWER Virtualization feature
      • 2.12.1 Micro-Partitioning technology
      • 2.12.2 Logical, virtual, and physical processor mapping
      • 2.12.3 Virtual I/O Server
      • 2.12.4 Partition Load Manager
      • 2.12.5 Integrated Virtualization Manager
    • 2.13 Hardware Management Console
      • 2.13.1 High availability using the HMC
      • 2.13.2 IBM System Planning Tool
    • 2.14 Operating system support
      • 2.14.1 AIX 5L
      • 2.14.2 Linux
    • 2.15 Service information
      • 2.15.1 Touch point colors
      • 2.15.2 Securing a rack-mounted system into a rack
      • 2.15.3 Placing a rack-mounted system into a rack
      • 2.15.4 Cable-management arm
      • 2.15.5 Operator control panel
      • 2.15.6 System firmware
      • 2.15.7 Service processor
      • 2.15.8 Hardware management user interfaces
  • Chapter 3. RAS and manageability
    • 3.1 Reliability, availability, and serviceability
      • 3.1.1 Fault avoidance
      • 3.1.2 First-failure data capture
      • 3.1.3 Permanent monitoring
      • 3.1.4 Self-healing
      • 3.1.5 N+1 redundancy
      • 3.1.6 Fault masking
      • 3.1.7 Resource deallocation
      • 3.1.8 Serviceability
    • 3.2 Manageability
      • 3.2.1 Service processor
      • 3.2.2 Partition diagnostics
      • 3.2.3 Service Agent
      • 3.2.4 IBM System p5 firmware maintenance
    • 3.3 Cluster solution
  • Related publications
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    • Other publications
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  • Back cover