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NUMA 66
Linux 77
Linux performance 77
O
Open Fabric Manager 58
OpenIPMI 308
operating system installation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 293–295
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 295–297
VMware ESX 281–285
VMware ESXi 264–281
Windows Server 2003 285–289
Windows Server 2008 289–293
operating systems 257
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 261
Solaris 263
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 262
VMware ESX 259
VMware ESXi 259
Windows Server 2003 259
Windows Server 2008 259
optical drive 7
optical media 34, 93
options
disk drives 127
EXP3000 143
memory 111
PDUs 359
processors 91
scalability 202
order of installation, cards 189
orientation of processors 96
OSA SMBridge 305
overview 1
P
PAE switch 289, 293
Partition Control 221
Partition Reorder 223
partitions 15, 220
automatic partitioning 227
clearing all 232
configuration steps 225
configure 222
creating 226
defined 197, 199
delete a partition 232
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Planning, Installing, and Managing the IBM System x3950 M2
manual partitioning 227
power off 231
reorder 223
reset 231
standalone boot 222
starting 228
status 224
Partitions Configure buttons 222
patrol read 130, 165
PCI Device Boot Priority 155, 189
PCI Express subsystem 43, 188
bridges 29–30
card installation order 189
hot-plug support 192
initial ROM size 193
installation 138
PCI slot information 192
ROM size 193
scan order 188
slots 4
Southbridge 188
x8 slots 43
PCI-X slots 60
PDUs 357
features 358
intelligent PDUs 360
line cords 359
part numbers 359
PFA error 165
Planar SAS 189
ports
Ethernet 4
scalability 211
TCP/IP ports for BMC 316
TCP/IP ports for RSA II 332
positioning 53, 56–87
IBM BladeCenter 57
iDataPlex 57
POST watchdog 306
power capping 100
power management 356
power off partition 231
power supplies 4, 7, 45
PowerExecutive. See Active Energy Manager
prefetcher
adjacent sector 107
processor hardware 108
prerequisites for multinode 201
primary node 197
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