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Youtube videos are worth a thousands words, so I will let them do the talking. Progress TCR Move May27 part 1 (the old location) Progress TCR Move May27 part 2 (the new location) What Mustafa thinks of IBM rackmount kits: And some pics from the last 3 days: (Click for larger versions) IBM xseries 336, bout 3 years old now ServeRAID 6M controller (in the PCI slot bay). Its IBM branded but its basically an Adaptec. This comes out of one of the 2 xseries 336 servers that, together with the EXP400 shelf, ......
The screenshots in this post have been restored on my new blog. Check out this article here. Okie.. so I am totally bored at work, lets see what fun I can have with IBM Director and some spare servers lying around. I thought it might be cool to try and make a rule that checked if a server had been turned off, and then brought it back up. This would be usefull for us, as we cannot physically administer all the servers we are responsible for, and there are always overzealos ‘admins’ walking about in ......
This post discusses the Standard IBM Bladecenter Chassis, not the T -or H Chassis systems. A common warning message you might recieve from an IBM Bladecenter is as follows: "Demand exceeds a single power module. Throttling can occur in power domain 1." The message is normal.In a normal rudundant situation, all power needs are drawn from both PSU's, so you effectively have 2 x 2000 = 4000w for a single power domain during normal running. Its not a fail-over system, its drawns its power from both PSU's ......
As part of a new global Active directory roleout, we recieved 4 xSeries 346 servers today, which will function as domain controllers. Here are some pictures I made (also on my Flickr! work page) IBM xSeries 346 server, with a 5 disks in the front. Mark is placing the controller. The Blower-array of the IBM xSeries 346 server. Each fan can be taken out seperately, or you can take the entire rack of fans out in one go. This little module that looks much like a memory stick, is in fact the Adaptec/IBM ......
I was approached by a contributer of the Wikimedia group, if they could use some of the pictures I had uploaded of Bladecenters, for the official Wikipedia article on them. I of course said it was oke, and now 3 of my pictures have become part of the Wikimedia archive as offical resources under the GNU FDL licence. http://commons.wikimedia.or... http://commons.wikimedia.or... http://commons.wikimedia.or... ......
Finding and Downloading anything from the IBM site is still a confounding process. This post, attempts to illustrate some of the issues I encounter, and has also been my mental notepad in this process. This post is also a rant. We purchased two IBM xSeries 366 servers, with the ServeRAID 8i SAS controller included. We installed these servers using the latest ServerGuide CD, version 7.3.6, dates 11/25/2005 The OS is Windows Server 2003 SP1 However, once we installed the IBM director Agent, the servers ......
As part of a new global Active directory roleout, we recieved 4 xSeries 346 servers today, which will function as domain controllers. Here are some pictures I made (also on my Flickr! work page) IBM xSeries 346 server, with a 5 disks in the front. Mark is placing the controller. The Blower-array of the IBM xSeries 346 server. Each fan can be taken out seperately, or you can take the entire rack of fans out in one go. This little module that looks much like a memory stick, is in fact the Adaptec/IBM ......
2 x xSeries 366 Servers, unpacked, and ready to recieve options So much stuff to build, so much to unpack!! Over 100.000 dollar worth of components on the table here. Extra CPU's, Harddisks, Option cards, even Acoustic Attenuation Modules .. all to be built into our Blades, Bladecenters, and xSeries 366's 21 HS20 Blade Servers, still in Box. One of the 2 IBM 366 servers, they will be running Windows 2003 and SQL 2000. The 2 Bladecenter Chassis waiting to be unpacked. Way way waaaaaay to many boxes ......
For the sake of every IBM administrator’s sanity, and for the benifit of google: The default password used by the BMC ( Baseboard management Controller ) for the eServer xSeries 336 3387 is as follows username: USERID (all uppercase)password: PASSW0RD (with a zero, and all uppercase) IBM’s website seach is again useless to find this information, try this string:http://www.ibm.com/s... It seems to be unable ......
So the guy from IBM who contacted me originally, also gave my name to a collegue, who is currently involved in streamlining the IBM Xseries resources, meaning, all the download and support stuff for the eServer Xseries family of products. We spent about an hour last Thursday on the phone, going over various pages, and I had the opertunity to give my opinion on them, and I had some idea’’s of my own aswell. He will be getting back to me on the changed they are making. I have said it before, ......
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