What Your Blade Server Offers - IBM HS22 - BladeCenter - 7870 Installation And User Manual

What your blade server offers

Your blade server offers features, such as, the Integrated Management Module,
storage disk drive support, IBM
microprocessor technology, integrated network support, I/O expansion, large
system-memory capacity, light path diagnostics, PCI Express, and power throttling.
v Integrated Management Module (IMM)
v Hard disk drive support
v IBM
v IBM Enterprise X-Architecture
v IBM ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD
The Integrated Management Module (IMM) is on the system board of the blade
server. The IMM operates as the service processor for the blade server and
performs several tasks, including the following:
– Provides RS-485 interfaces to the Advanced Management Module
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– I C compatible Two Wire interface
– Local Environmental Monitoring
– Local LED control
– Automatic Server Restart (ASR)
– One channel 16550 to support ready to send (RTS) and clear to send (CTS)
modem control pins (two serial ports)
– Serial over LAN (SOL)
– Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 compliant
– Remote power on/power off of a remote blade server
– Error logging
– Remote systems management
– Blade server oversubscription
– Blower speed control
– CPU throttling
– Memory throttling
– Integrated keyboard/video/mouse (cKVM)
The blade server supports up to two 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS SFF hard disk
drives, RAID 0 and RAID 1 support, up to 300 GB per drive.
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Director
IBM Director is a workgroup-hardware-management tool that you can use to
centrally manage servers. For more information, see the IBM
documentation on the IBM
IBM Enterprise X-Architecture technology combines proven, innovative IBM
designs to make your x86-processor-based blade server powerful, scalable, and
reliable. For more information, see http://www.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/
enterprise/xarchitecture.html.
The ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD provides programs to help you set up
the blade server and install a Windows operating system. The ServerGuide
program detects installed optional hardware devices and provides the correct
configuration programs and device drivers. For more information about the
ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD, see "Using the ServerGuide Setup and
Installation CD" on page 63.
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Chapter 1. Introduction