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Once your session is configured, click Connect and, assuming there is no
operating system currently running, you should see POST messages or the EFI
Boot Manager menu.
Tip: If you are running Linux, you can redirect the console messages to the
serial port. For more information about this feature, refer to the "Console
messages over the serial port" section in Chapter 4 of the publication Linux on
Itanium 2 .
3.3 Storage considerations
When you are planning the storage configuration to accompany the x450, there
are important performance and sizing issues that need to be considered.
The two internal hot-swap 1" drive bays will typically be used for operating
system installation. We recommend these drives be configured as a two-drive
RAID-1 array to provide a higher degree of system availability. Drives up to
15,000 RPM and the converged tray design are supported. To configure RAID-1,
you must use the internal LSI controller that is provided onboard.
Restriction: ServeRAID adapter is supported on external disks only. For
internal disks, you must use the internal LSI controller.
Typically the x450 will be attached to an external disk enclosure for data storage
requirements. Some of the supported IBM storage options are:
SCSI RAID adapters and storage enclosures
Fibre Channel adapters and Storage Area Networks (SANs)
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
IBM Enterprise Storage Server™ (ESS)
ESCON® connectivity to a zSeries server
Note: You can also add as an option an LS-120 diskette drive that can be
used to upgrade the firmware or the EFI version. Please note that no diskette
drive is provided with the default configuration, and that this solution is not
supported.
3.3.1 xSeries storage solutions
This section discusses some of the available xSeries storage solutions and
related technologies, as well as tape backup and performance considerations.
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