What Your Server Offers - IBM System x3850 X6 Installation And Service Manual

What your server offers

Use this information to get an overview of the server functions, features,
capabilities, and technologies.
The server uses the following features and technologies:
v Active Energy Manager
v Dynamic System Analysis (DSA)
v Features on Demand software Ethernet support
v Features on Demand software RAID support
v FlexNode Support
v IBM ServerGuide Setup and Installation DVD
The IBM Active Energy Manager solution is an IBM Systems Director extension
that measures and reports server power consumption as it occurs. This enables
you to monitor power consumption in correlation to specific software
application programs and hardware configurations. You can obtain the
measurement values through the systems-management interface and view them,
using IBM Systems Director. For more information, including the required levels
of IBM Systems Director and Active Energy Manager, see the IBM Systems
Director documentation on the IBM Systems Director DVD, or see
http://www.ibm.com/systems/management.
The server comes with the IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
diagnostic program stored in the integrated USB memory on the server. DSA
collects and analyzes system information to aid in diagnosing server problems,
as well as offering a rich set of diagnostic tests of the major components of the
server. DSA creates a DSA log, which is a chronologically ordered merge of the
system-event log (as the IPMI event log), the integrated management module
(IMM) event log (as the ASM event log), and the operating-system event logs.
You can send the DSA log as a file to IBM Support or view the information as a
text file or HTML file.
Two editions of Dynamic System Analysis are available: DSA Portable and DSA
Preboot. For more information about both editions, see "DSA editions" on page
174.
The server provides Features on Demand software Ethernet support. You can
purchase a Features on Demand software upgrade activation key for Fiber
Channel over Ethernet and iSCSI storage protocols that is provided through the
Ethernet controller. For more information, see "Enabling Features on Demand
Ethernet software" on page 146.
The server provides Features on Demand software RAID support for RAID
levels 5, 6, 50, and 60 upgrade. Features on Demand software RAID upgrade is
integrated into the integrated management module II (IMM2). For more
information, see "Enabling Features on Demand RAID software" on page 146.
The IBM System x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 server provides support for
reconfiguring a multinode server into two independent, stand-alone servers, also
known as FlexNode. When FlexNode support is enabled, each scalable partition
can support its own independent operating-system installation. Each scalable
partition has its own local resources as an independent server, and cannot access
the resources or boot the operating system of another stand-alone server while
FlexNode is enabled. The FlexNode is a feature of the Integrated Management
Module II (IMM2).
For additional information, see "Configuring a multinode system" on page 135.
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