Duration
2 days
Chapter 1. General Description
1.1 System specifications
1.2 Physical specifications
1.3 Physical packaging
1.5 Minimum and optional features
1.6 Processor features.
1.7 Memory features
1.8 Internal Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Disk.
1.8.1 Hard Disk Drives
1.9 BladeCenter chassis
1.9.1 BladeCenter Power Modules.
1.9.2 BladeCenter Management Modules
1.9.3 Media features
1.10 Serial over local area network (LAN)
1.11 Statement of direction
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview.
2.2 Cache Structure.
2.3 Memory subsystem.
2.4 I/O subsystem.
2.4.1 PCI-Express.
2.5 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Subsystem.
2.6 Mass Storage.
2.7 Storage.
2.7.1 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage subsystem.
2.12 Logical partitioning and virtualization.
2.12.1 Dynamic logical partitioning.
2.12.2 Virtualization.
2.12.3 Advanced POWER Virtualization.
2.13 Operating system support
2.13.1 AIX 5L.
2.13.2 Linux.
2.14 Systems Management.
2.14.1 BladeCenter Web Interface.
2.14.2 IBM Director.
2.14.3 Cluster Systems Management
Chapter 3. Reliability, availability, and serviceability.
3.1 Reliability, fault tolerance, and data integrity.
3.1.1 Hardware Error Handling
3.1.2 Boot Time Diagnostics.
3.1.3 Standalone Diagnostics.
3.1.4 Runtime Diagnostics
3.1.5 I/O Diagnostics
3.1.6 Machine Check Handling and Dump Support.
3.2 Serviceability.
3.2.1 Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM).
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