Free Gadget Manuals: 02/16/09

X-Station manual V1.1

The X-Station is a state of the art product, it turns any computer into a complete, professional music & audio production workstation with hardware synthesizer, audio & MIDI interface, control surface and effects processor – all in one package with USB, PSU or battery power! When used with a computer running a MIDI / Audio sequencer package it will provide a superb, compact recording setup.

It may be used to control sequencers, popular software virtual instruments on a computer or traditional hardware instruments via either a USB connection or a standard MIDI interface. In addition to the control features it contains two audio pre-amplifiers together with a twin multi-effects processor that allows the recording and replay of mono or stereo audio signals to and from a computer.

The front panel provides a wealth of programmable controls arranged in the format of a traditional synthesizer, each of which can be configured to suit the needs of the instrument to be controlled. Each control can be stored within a Template memory for instant recall at a later time. The X-Station is equally at home in a live performance or studio situation where it can be used as a stand-alone synthesizer, MIDI controller keyboard and recording device. Its comprehensive range of controls may be used to dynamically alter any sound parameters precisely and in real time whilst simultaneously recording and replaying stereo audio data.

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IBM xSeries 335 Type 8676: User’s Guide

The IBM® Eserver xSeries™ 335 Type 8676 server is a 1-U-high 1 rack model server for high-volume network transaction processing. This high-performance, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server is ideally suited for networking environments that require superior microprocessor performance, input/output (I/O) flexibility, and high manageability.

Performance, ease of use, reliability, and expansion capabilities were key considerations in the design of your server. These design features make it possible for you to customize the system hardware to meet your needs today and provide flexible expansion capabilities for the future.

If you have access to the Internet, you can obtain up-to-date information about your server and other IBM server products at http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/ on the World Wide Web.

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High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing for AIX Concepts and Facilities Guide

The IBM tool for building UNIX-based mission-critical computing platforms is the HACMP software. The HACMP software ensures that critical resources, such as applications, are available for processing. HACMP has two major components: high availability (HA) and cluster multi-processing (CMP).

The primary reason to create HACMP clusters is to provide a highly available environment for mission-critical applications. For example, an HACMP cluster could run a database server program which services client applications. The clients send queries to the server program which responds to their requests by accessing a database, stored on a shared external disk. In an HACMP cluster, to ensure the availability of these applications, the applications are put under HACMP control. HACMP takes measures to ensure that the applications remain available to client processes even if a component in a cluster fails. To ensure availability, in case of a component failure, HACMP moves the application (along with resources that ensure access to the application) to another node in the cluster.

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IBM DB2 & Sun Enterprise Server Solution Configuration Guide

The IBM DB2 and Sun Enterprise™ Server Solution Configuration Guide provides you with the information and procedures you need to install, configure and test the following software on a Sun Enterprise™ 250 or Enterprise™ 450 server:
• IBM DB2 Universal Database 5.0 — Enterprise Edition
• InfoSpace SpaceSQL 3.0

Note: This guide contains configuration and installation information only. If you require in-depth information on IBM DB2 or InfoSpace software or the Sun Enterprise 250 or 450 workgroup servers, please refer to the product documentation that is available from IBM, InfoSpace, or Sun.

This configuration guide is intended for:
• Sun resellers who are setting up a new data management and decision support system using IBM DB2 and InfoSpace SpaceSQL software
• IBM administrators who are installing on Solaris™ for the first time

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A Guide to ERRM

Enterprise Rapid Recovery Methodology (ERRM) provides a complete heterogeneous recovery solution for your Open Systems and Intel IT infrastructure. Developed by Indigo Stone and offered through IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services (BCRS), ERRM is a completely reliable, repeatable and certain recovery solution. . ERRM combines the customer’s backups and the BCRS recovery site’s infrastructure to provide a total recovery solution. ERRM’s software tools greatly reduce recovery times, the dependence on technical expertise and management time required to perform a system recovery. The ERRM methodology utilizes a common approach that can be used across the customer’s heterogeneous server environment.

Methodology:
ERRM monitors a system’s configuration to help ensure all required resources are available at the recovery site. If these resources are not available, the recovery provider is advised so that additional requirements can be addressed.
• How does it do this? Profiling - is an intelligent agent that resides on the customer’s system and captures only the vital configuration information necessary for recovery. The profiling process captures data such as hardware configuration, operating system levels, system tuning, network connections, system boot files, and information pertaining to data storage.
• The Profile captures this data on a scheduled basis and then sends it back to a secure server at the customer’s desired BCRS recovery location. Having stored this information, it is then compared against any previously collected information to ensure the recovery site has all the resources required to recover the profiled system. This reporting functionality can also be utilized in-house for as an aid with asset management and change control.

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SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on IBM Hardware

The SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) distribution is designed to provide a secure and reliable operating system for a variety of purposes. Because security requirements obviously depend on the applications and environment, it is not possible to simply certify that the system is ”secure”, a more precise definition is needed. The Common Criteria (CC) provides a widely recognized methodology for security certifications. A CC evaluation is fundamentally a two-step process, consisting of defining the ”security target” which describes the features that are to be evaluated, and then testing and verifying that the system actually implements these features with a sufficient level of assurance.

This document is a security guide that explains how to set up the evaluated configuration, and provides information to administrators and ordinary users to ensure secure operation of the system. It is intended to be self-contained in addressing the most important issues at a high level, and refers to other existing documentation where more details are needed. The document primarily addresses administrators, but the section ”Security guidelines for users” is intended for ordinary users of the system as well as administrators. Knowledge of the Common Criteria is not required for readers of this document.

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IBM System x3550 Type 7978: Installation Guide

This Installation Guide contains instructions for setting up your IBM® System x3550 Type 7978 server and basic instructions for installing some options. More detailed instructions for installing options are in the IBM User’s Guide on the IBM System x ™ Documentation CD, which comes with the server. This document contains information about:
- Setting up and cabling the server
- Installing some options
- Identifying server controls, LEDs, and power
- Starting and configuring the server
- Solving problems

The System x3550 server supports one of the following hard disk drive configurations:
- Servers with four hot-swap bays support 2.5-inch hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives. You can install only 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS drives in these servers. The following illustration shows a System x3550 server with a 2.5-inch hard disk drive configuration.

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Altiris Deployment Solution™ for IBM Servers 1.3

This section provides steps for identifying prerequisite requirements and a checklist for installing components of Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 and the IBM SSTK 1.3. Altiris products can be installed by running the respectively named individual core files after downloading the products individually.

Altiris always recommends that you download the latest service packs and hotfixes from http://www.altiris.com/support/updates if applicable. At the time of this writing, Deployment Solution 6.5 Hotfix 2 is available and needs to be installed separately after Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 has been installed. Consult Deployment Solution product documentation for a detailed discussion of prerequisites, installation, and product architecture at http://www.altiris.com/Support/Documentation.aspx.

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IBM xSeries 346 Type 8840: Installation Guide

This Installation Guide contains instructions for setting up your IBM® Eserver™ xSeries® 346 Type 8840 server and basic instructions for installing some options. More detailed instructions for installing options are in the Option Installation Guide on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD, which comes with your server. This document contains information about:
- Setting up and cabling your server
- Starting and configuring your server
- Installing some options
- Solving problems

If firmware and documentation updates are available, you can download them from http://www.ibm.com/support/. The server might have features that are not described in the documentation that comes with the server, and the documentation might be updated occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates might be available to provide additional information that is not included in the server documentation. To check for updates, go to http://www.ibm.com/support/. For firmware updates, click Downloads and drivers. For documentation updates, under Search technical support, type xSeries 346 and click Search.

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IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool Installation and User’s Guide

IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool 5.20 provides a number of new features and enhancements. IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool console installation IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool includes a console component which adds options to the BladeCenter® Configuration Manager task that you can use to save a SAN configuration profile that can be applied to new blade servers when they are added.

Use the IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network and to save and restore network-storage configurations. IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool adds a set of dircli commands that you can use to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network. It also adds options to the BladeCenter Configuration Manager task that you can use to save a SAN configuration profile that can be applied to new blade servers when they are added or replaced, effectively remapping the remote storage to the new blade.

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Manage SAS Metadata Server Availability with IBM Technology

SAS Metadata Server, one of the key technology applications in SAS®9, manages and protects information that is shared across the SAS®9 framework, and can be used with various third-party monitoring tools. The ability to surface metadata from one or more repositories and serve it to applications via SAS Open Metadata Architecture allows companies to gather and store data in multiple formats and locations without losing the ability to derive consistent business intelligence from the data. The benefits of metadata are numerous, and the ability of the SAS Metadata Server to provide a centralized and easily managed system for consistent data repositories means that customers know where their data is located, what it’s made up of, and how it’s been modified. The SAS Metadata Server enables companies to, quickly and efficiently, get the right answers for all their strategic business intelligence needs.

This paper offers guidelines that enable you to build a resilient environment to support and manage the SAS Metadata Server by using IBM technology.

Fault Tolerance of the SAS Metadata Server
The SAS Metadata Server is a vital element of the SAS®9 architecture that benefits from being deployed in a resilient environment. Data protection such as that provided by Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) file systems, and system monitoring such as that provided by the IBM Virtualization Suite support a fault-tolerant strategy.

The SAS Metadata Server uses “in-memory” architecture to process queries and updates, which means that all queried and updated metadata is held in memory by the server. To avoid paging, the server should have sufficient RAM to hold all active metadata entries.

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Deploying Citrix MetaFrame on IBM E server BladeCenter with IBM Fast Storage

Blade servers are a relatively new technology, one that has captured industry focus because of its modular design, which can reduce cost through a more efficient use of valuable floor space, and its simplified management, which can help to speed up such tasks as deploying, reprovisioning, updating and troubleshooting hundreds of blade servers. All this can be done remotely with one graphical console using IBM Director systems management tools. In addition, blade servers provide improved performance by doubling current rack density. By integrating your resources and sharing key components, not only will you reduce cost but you will also increase availability.

In this section, we list the key features of the IBM Eserver BladeCenter and the BladeCenter
HS20 and HS40 servers. First, the IBM Eserver BladeCenter features:
Rack-optimized, 7U modular design enclosure:
– Holds up to 14 hot-swap IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS20 blades with up to six enclosures in a 42U rack
– Holds up to seven hot-swap IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS40 blades
A high availability midplane supporting the hot-swap of individual blades. Two 1800-watt, hot-swap power modules and support for two redundant 1800-watt power modules with load balancing and failover capabilities. See guidelines in 1.2.5, “IBM eServer BladeCenter Power Supply Module” on page 11. Two hot-swap and redundant 325 CFM blowers and thermal sensors throughout to monitor and alert of over-temperature conditions. One management module (standard) lets you manage and control components in the enclosure. Add a second module for redundancy. Optional hot-swap redundant Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch modules (supports up to four network switch modules). Control panel - contains USB port and status LEDs.

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IBM eServer Cryptographic Coprocessor Security Module Model 4764–001 Security Policy

This document describes services that the IBM eServer Cryptographic Coprocessor 4764–001 (Hardware P/N 16R0911, 12R6536, 12R8241, 12R8561, 41U0438) (“the module”) with Miniboot software resident in ROM and flash, provides to a population of security officers, users, and the security policy governing access to those services. This policy applies to multiple members of the 47xx product family. We describe multiple firmware revisions running on different hardware releases, highlighting differences where appropriate. Firmware identifiers refer to unambiguously identifiable lead digits of Segment 1 (firmware) hash, a unique value describing card firmware status, returned by card configuration queries. This policy applies to the following firmware identifiers: 2a4e5289, 2096a16d, and c16f4102.

Please see Section 10 (p. 28) for validated combinations of hardware and firmware.
The document is built on the foundations of the previously validated IBM 4758 Model 002 (validation certificate 116, validated under FIPS 140-2), reflecting the implementation differences between the 4758 and variants of the 4764–001. Differences between members of the 4764 family are also described in the following pages.

Background of Family The module is a programmable secure coprocessor. It consists of:
• base hardware;
• embedded firmware that is not visible to the outside;
• Miniboot software, which controls the security and configuration of the device (the externally visible part of card firmware);
• higher system software and application layers
Note that higher layers of software and application (Layers 2 and 3) are not included in the current validation.

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System Authentication for AIX and Linux using the IBM Directory Server

System- and User- Authentication is common task in every IT-environment. Various requirements such as security, scalability, availability, multi-platform support and shortcomings of other solutions like NIS lead to the fact that LDAP is becoming more and more popular for that task. Althoug LDAP can be used for much more, we’ll focus on how LDAP can be used for system authentication in an AIX (Version 5.2 and above) and Linux environment using the IBM Directory Server 4.1 in this paper.

For a better illustration of the required design and implementation steps we’ll use a real world scenario derived from a customer project. We’ll first describe the server- and user scenario and the customer administration- and security reqierements in Chapter 2. Based on these requirements we’ll explain the design decisions (e.g. schema, namespace) for the directoy in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4 and 5 we document the implementation steps for the LDAP-Server on AIX and the Client implementation steps for AIX and Linux respectively.

We do not cover general LDAP basics here. Good material for understanding LDAP can be found in [1] and [2]. General product documentation for the IBM Directory Server can be found in [5] and [6], whereas an excelent LDAP lecture can be enjoyed online in [9].

Availability and Scalability considerations will be added to a future version of this paper (a highly available and scaleable LDAP-Server-Infrastructure can be achieved with the replication features of the IBM Directory Server in combination with server load balaning using for example the IBM Network Dispatcher) as well as other topics (see Chapter 6).

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Using IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server FlashCopy with VMware ESX 2.5 Server

The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) is targeted at both mainframe and open system environments and is designed to provide improved reliability, ease of management and exceptional performance. Further, the ESS provides a rich set of Advanced Copy Services to providing point-in-time copies, synchronous copies, and remote mirroring.

VMware, an EMC company, was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers. VMware delivered its first product, VMware® Workstation in 1999 and in 2001 introduced VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server. With the launch of VMware VirtualCenter in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion™ technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the newly emerging virtual infrastructure marketplace. Virtual infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling business to reduce their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In 2004, the company extended the capabilities of virtual infrastructure to the enterprise desktop with the introduction of VMware ACE. VMware is based in the heart of Silicon Valley–Palo Alto, California.

IBM and VMware are working together to provide greater benefits to end-users by promoting greater interoperability in the solutions that each bring to the marketplace. This paper offers an overview of the use of the ESS’s FlashCopy function to assist customers in meeting their data backup needs for applications running on the ESX Server.

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ESET NOD32 Antivirus for IBM Lotus Domino

ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Lotus Domino (AMFE) is a Lotus Domino server addin, built upon the state-of-the- art NOD32 scanning engine. It was designed to protect email communication from virus infiltrations propagating by e-mail, and to lower the e-mail traffic by filtering out undesired email attachments. ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Lotus Domino utilizes the same engine as NOD32 2.7, including archive scanning, advanced heuristics, adware/spyware/riskware detection, etc.

System requirements
• Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / 2003 server
• NOD32 for Windows (v. 2.51.20 and higher)
• IBM Lotus Domino R5 (v. 5.0.9a and higher)
• IBM Lotus Domino R6
• IBM Lotus Domino R6.5
• IBM Lotus Domino R7

Before you install
Prior to installing ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Lotus Domino, make sure that NOD32 2.7 is already installed on the Lotus Domino server.

NOD32 2.7 as well as ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Lotus Domino is available for download from Eset’s website http://www.eset.com/download/ using your username and password. For more information about installing NOD32, read the quick installation guide available at http://www.eset.com/download/manual.htm.

After NOD32 installation set in the AMON module in Extension Editor the TMP files not to be checked. Before you start the installation (uninstallation) of ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Lotus Domino, quit the Lotus Domino Server.

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Siebel CRM Release 7 on IBM eServer p650 and IBM DB2 UDB Performance and Scalability

The Siebel CRM Release 7 Smart Web Architecture introduces a revolutionary approach for deploying Web applications. It includes a Web-only solution with the interactivity customers have become accustomed to with client/server implementations. It does so by being highly scalable and very light on the network and Web servers, thereby allowing customers to leverage their existing network and Web-farm infrastructure. The tests conducted in Oracle’s Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance Program are designed to stress the Siebel CRM Release 7 architecture and to demonstrate that large customers can successfully deploy many thousands of concurrent users.

The Siebel CRM Release 7 architecture features tested in this benchmark include
• Siebel Smart Web Architecture—Takes advantage of the latest Web browser technology to deliver a highly interactive experience. The interactive model which is similar to Windows-based applications also improves productivity. Utilization rates on the Web server are low, allowing customers to retain existing Web server infrastructure.
• Siebel Smart Network Architecture—Allows Siebel CRM Release 7 customers to leverage their existing network infrastructure by compressing and caching user interface components, so that browser/Web server interaction occurs only when the application requests data. This allows customers to avoid expensive network upgrades that can be necessary with competing products.
• Siebel Smart Database Connection Pooling and Multiplexing—Allows customers to scale their databases without introducing expensive and complex transaction processing monitors.
• Siebel Request Broker—Provides for component-level load balancing of work across multiple Siebel servers without the expensive and complex administration of transaction-processing monitors.
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)—Allows customers to integrate their existing systems with Siebel CRM applications. With a relatively modest investment in equipment, customers can execute more than 2,100,000 integrated transactions during an eight-hour business day.

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IBM eServer xSeries 455

In today’s on demand world, companies must react instantly to dynamic market conditions adding capacity, improving service availability and rebalancing server infrastructures to seize opportunities and counter competitive threats. The IBM eServer xSeries® 455 expands the xSeries server family with a 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 Processor-based scalable enterprise node platform providing customers with a new tool for conquering transaction-intensive database and ERP application workloads.

High performance, small package
For applications that demand scale-up server performance, the x455 complements existing Windows® and Linux® server environments with high performance in a small, scalable package.

Designed to provide extensive flexibility and scalability for high-performance databases such as IBM DB2 Universal Database™, Microsoft® SQL Server and Oracle, the x455 delivers pure 64- bit, 16-way SMP power to the industry-standard server market. Built on the proven chipset logic of IBM Enterprise X-Architecture, the x455 helps customers more easily exploit the benefits of 64-bit data addressing. And with standard support for memory mirroring, including hot-swap capability, the x455 helps instill confidence in the deployment of pure 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms making it ideal for enterprise applications such as SAP and SAS.

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Server Consolidation Security - Firewall and VPN Solutions for IBM eServers

Today’s on-demand enterprise can gain significant benefits by consolidating servers into their mainframe and midrange systems. Whether an organization uses IBM® eServer® iSeries model 800s or the IBM eServer zSeries® z990, consolidation of servers is now possible, yielding substantial return on investment. Whether it’s mainframes or midrange, organizations can reduce administration, infrastructure, and systems costs significantly by running many virtual servers inside a single eServer zSeries or iSeries machine, instead of using tens or hundreds of x86-architecture based PC servers.

The conversion to server consolidation, although very beneficial to the on-demand organization, is not without concerns. Traditional mainframes and midrange systems were considered very secure. But the introduction of Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® based systems inside these machines, and TCP/IP networking connecting them all together on virtual LANs, introduces the same security concerns that physical servers and LANs have had for many years.

Stonesoft’s StoneGate firewall and VPN solution for IBM eServer zSeries and iSeries provides a unique security solution to address the network security needs of this new architecture design. StoneGate excels in security, manageability, availability and security. This whitepaper will explore the issues surrounding server consolidation on the mainframe and midrange systems, and detail how StoneGate can address the security concerns—providing for a secure, on demand workplace, a significant return on investment and the enablement of new business processes.

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Deployment Solution for IBM Servers v1.3 QS Guide

This getting start provides quick start help and installation checklists to assist in setting up and confi uring Deployment Solution for IBM Servers. In addition to the product documentation bundled with the product download, this guide includes a checklist of required tasks to get you up and running quickly. Altiris recommends that after reading this guide you refer to the included product guide to learn more about all the Altiris features and configuration options. In addition, the latest Altiris documentation is available at www.altiris.com/support/documentation. You can also access an installation video and other resources at www.altiris.com/partners/alliancepartners/ibmalliancepartner.aspx

This section provides steps for identifying prerequisite requirements and a checklist for installing components of Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 and the IBM SSTK 1.3. Altiris products can be installed by running the respectively named individual core files after downloading the products individually. Altiris always recommends that you download the latest service packs and hotfixes from http://www.altiris.com/support/updates if applicable. At the time of this writing, Deployment Solution 6.5 Hotfix 2 is available and needs to be installed separately after Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 has been installed.

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IBM Server Quick Reference

Intervoice offers a selection of IBM servers to provide call automation solutions with or without telephony boards. The IBM xSeries servers are capable of supporting many of Intervoice’s server-dependent features, including:
• Voice browser (IQTalk, VoiceXML, or SALT)
• Speech recognition
• Text-to-speech
• Application/Web server
• Control Center Alert
• Control Center Manage
• Control Center Deploy
• Application View

• Database server xSeries server models
The xSeries server models available are:
• xSeries 346
• xSeries 336
• xSeries 206M

Site preparation responsibilities
Intervoice:
• Works with the customer to develop a suitable site plan.
• Prepares the equipment for installation.
• Installs the equipment.
• Performs system tests that ensure satisfactory operation.
Customer:
• Prepares the installation facility to meet environmental, cooling, and ventilation requirements.
• Installs all wiring, including power and data cables, in compliance with local and national building codes (in the United States, National Electrical Code NFPA 70).
• Installs the telephone lines for connection to the system

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IBM xSeries 305

The IBM ^® xSeries® 305 is a value-packed, entry-level 1U server for Web and network infrastructures.

Highly affordable
The ultradense, rack-optimized x305 can help ease your IT infrastructure and expenses. It packs a cost- efficient, edge-of-network solution in a 1U, 16.75-inch deep form factor. The x305 offers a range of Intel® Pentium® 4 processors with high-performance 533MHz front-side bus and up to 4GB of DDR memory—allowing you to manage expenses or optimize performance.

Streamlined manageability
The x305 takes advantage of innovative cable management, IBM Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT), to reduce cabling expense and rack clutter. A new slide-mounting design also simplifies deployment and service. Industry-leading IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager software take the hassle out of systems management and server deployment. For remote management, the optional IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter lets you remotely manage the x305 from any connected location. Together, these components work to ease the burden on your IT staff and help you increase productivity.

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Accessing a Microsoft SQL Server Table from IBM DB2 UDB 8.2

This document shows the tasks that need to be performed in order to make available a table residing in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 from an IBM DB2 UDB V8.2 both residing on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Prerequisites:
• IBM DB2 UDB V8.2 (this technote uses DB2 V8.2 for Windows)
• IBM WebSphere Information Integrator V8.2 (A trial version may be downloaded from the IBM developerworks website http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Microsoft Windows Version 2000 (or higher)

Install IBM DB2 UDB V8.2 and IBM WebSphere Information Integrator V8.2 Standard Edition. Advanced and Developer editions of WebSphere Information Integrator will also work for this task.
Steps involved:
Step 1: Create a Wrapper
Step 2: Create a Server
Step 3: Create User Mapping
Step 4: Create a Nickname

A ‘Wrapper’ is a mechanism used to access the federated data source. The ‘Server’ defines the data source to a federated database. User Mapping establishes the mapping between the Federating Server user id and the user id on the actual data source. The nickname is used to access the data source object.

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IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server Overview

Master data management (MDM) allows organizations to generate business value from their most important information. Managing master data, or key business facts about a company’s customers, products and accounts, can not only drive revenue but also help to reduce costs, increase flexibility and reduce risk. IBM Multiform Master Data Management helps organizations deliver business value by centralizing multiple data domains and providing the inherent functionality to employ multiple master data usage styles.

The three usage styles for managing master data are collaborative, operational and analytical. Companies employing the collaborative style use MDM to define, verify and augment master data to establish a single understanding of key information. Operational MDM manages the delivery and consumption of master data in day-to-day operations, while analytical MDM is used to stage master data destined for analytical systems that can supply rich insight into operational processes.

IBM® InfoSphere™ Master Data Management Server is an operational MDM solution from IBM that provides the strategic architecture companies need to solve critical enterprise MDM issues. InfoSphere Master Data Management Server helps organizations realize the full benefit of their investments in customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) systems, as well as integration tools and data warehouses. InfoSphere Master Data Management Server maintains master data for multiple domains including customer, account and product, as well as other data types such as location and privacy preferences. Through business services, InfoSphere Master Data Management Server facilitates integration with all applications and business processes that consume master data.

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X i Graphics - A Small Case Study Accelerated-X™ on AIX

Xi Graphics, Inc. (”XiG”) was approached by a US-based division of a large, well-known company active internationally as a provider of control systems that employ Wall Displays of computer generated graphics. The division uses IBM System p products, and was having some difficulties with Power5 Model 520 systems, among others, using the IBM model GXT135P graphics card. While the graphics card could support two monitors and had hardware support for image overlays, the IBM-supplied X Window System sub-system software would not support overlays or more than one monitor per GXT135P graphics card.

Within about a 90 day period, XiG had provided the company (now a customer) with not only the ability to use two monitors and image overlays with each GXT135P card, the XiG Accelerated-X brand of X server/driver sub-system software also provided many features not available with the IBM software, and to top it off, increased the speed of the graphics system by a significant amount. Figure 1 shows the results of running the industry standard X11 Perf benchmark - first using IBM’s AIX X server/driver software, then using XiG’s Accelerated-X Summit Series X server/driver software. The customer also tested the XiG software with his applications software on a number of systems, all running the AIX v5.2 or v5.3 kernels and CDE desktop, to verify correct operation.

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ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server Performance Brief

ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server delivers greater application performance than any prior version of ColdFusion. This product has been designed and tuned for maximum performance and scalability by leveraging the power of the underlying J2EE server. It takes full advantage of the performance optimizations available with the IBM Java virtual machine (JVM) version 1.3.1 and provides its own performance-enhancing features, including query and page caching, support for in-memory queries, and built-in facilities for profiling code and identifying bottlenecks.

This brief provides detailed performance and scalability information about ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere. Running on the enterprise-class WebSphere Advanced Edition 4.0.3, ColdFusion MX also delivers exceptional performance, scalability and reliability.
Statistics Summary
Windows – As much as 2.5 times faster than ColdFusion 5
Solaris – More than 2 times faster than ColdFusion 5
Linux – 3.5 times faster than ColdFusion 5

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IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage SAS 9 on the IBM for eServer p590

This document presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays (formerly known as FAStT). Recently IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment hardware included a SAN attached IBM TotalStorage DS4400 and the IBM p5 eServer using AIX. In addition to the DS4400, most of the storage findings and layout recommendations can be applied toward any of the members of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 family including the DS4100, DS4300, DS4400, DS4500, and DS4800.

The objectives achieved in this test effort included CPU sizing exercises, and storage disk layout validation/performance testing. Storage testing focused on filesystem configuration, host bus adapters quantity, and disk array placement. In addition, the team tested the DS4000 Storage Management physical disk array placement software algorithm and completed the TotalStorage Proven ™ certification testing for SAS 9 with the stated IBM hardware. During testing the initial DS4000 storage I/O parameters were documented and used as a performance baseline. The team changed DS4000 disk parameters and tested those changes with the same ETL Test Suite data comparing the results against the baseline test. This document focuses on some of the relevant application performance results along with DS4000 storage configuration recommendations based on the completed performance testing.

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Security Target for the IBM Tivoli Directory Server Version 6.0 Fix Pack 1, Interim Fix 1

IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 6.0 (ITDS) is an implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) LDAP Version 2 specifications, i.e. RFC 1777 and LDAP Version 3 specifications, i.e. RFC 2251-2256. The server is a software only product and can be installed and operated on variety of hardware/software platforms.

LDAP is essentially a specialized database where the update operation is less frequent and dedicated to the common goal within the enterprise on consolidating and unifying the management of identity. ITDS is built for identity management with role supports, fine-grained access control and entry ownership. It provides the foundation for improved security, rapid development and deployment of Web applications. Using the power of the IBM DB2 Universal Database as back end data store, ITDS provides high performance, reliability and stability in an enterprise or e-business. As the central repository for data within an enterprise, it is a powerful, secure and standards compliant enterprise directory for corporate intranets and the Internet.

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Cisco Security Advisory: Voice Product Vulnerabilities on IBM Servers

The default installation of Cisco voice products on the IBM platform will install the Director Agent in an unsecure state, leaving the Director services vulnerable to remote administration control and/or Denial of Service attacks. The vulnerabilities can be mitigated by configuration changes and Cisco is providing a repair script that will close the vulnerable ports and put the Director agent in secure state without requiring an upgrade.

Cisco voice products running on IBM servers installed with the default configurations are affected if they leave TCP or UDP port 14247 open. To verify this vulnerability, the administrator may open a command window on the server and type netstat −a. If port 14247 is listed, the server is vulnerable to remote administrative control and Denial of Service attacks.

Affected Cisco voice products:
• Cisco CallManager
• Cisco IP Interactive Voice Response (IP IVR)
• Cisco IP Call Center Express (IPCC Express)
• Cisco Personal Assistant (PA)
• Cisco Emergency Responder (CER)
• Cisco Conference Connection (CCC)
• Cisco Internet Service Node (ISN) running on an IBM with an affected OS version.

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IBM p5 570 server

The IBM® p5 570 midrange server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative virtualization technologies. Based on POWER5 processors with simultaneous multithreading and a unique scalable, building block packaging, the p5-570 is well-suited for server consolidation projects, database and application serving, e-commerce and departmental or regional server deployments. The rack-mount p5-570 server delivers power, flexibility, scalability and reliability features for commercial and high performance computing (HPC) applications.

The p5 570 is designed to be a cost-effective, flexible server for the on demand environment. Innovative virtualization technologies and Capacity on Demand (CoD) options help increase the responsiveness of the server to variable computing demands. These features also help increase the systems utilization of processors and system components allowing businesses to meet their computing requirements with a smaller system. By combining IBM’s most advanced leading-edge technology for enterprise-class performance and flexible adaptation to changing market conditions, the p5-570 server can deliver the key capabilities medium-sized companies need to survive in today’s highly competitive world.

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IBM eServer i5 520 Overview

Small and midsized companies want to focus on their business and not their IT infrastructure. The IBM i5 520 server—a new member of the IBM iSeries™ family—can deliver not only the power and capacity to run core business applications, but also the ability to add new e-business applications.

Advanced virtualization technologies allow the IBM ^ i5 520 to run multiple operating systems and applications environments simultaneously—including IBM i5/OS™, Linux®, IBM AIX 5L™, Microsoft® Windows Server System™ and Lotus® Domino® software. By supporting multiple operating environments, the IBM ^ i5 can enable companies to deploy a broad selection of new applications and consolidate operations on a single highly flexible, resilient server with outstanding price/performance.

IBM i5 servers can help companies reduce complexity, simplify their IT infrastructures and potentially reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO). With multiple growth options and upgrades available, companies can start small and expand their IBM ^ i5 520 server as their needs grow. The ^ i5 520 delivers superior customer value on a single server.

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IBM eServer X3 Architecture: Application Server Performance Gains

The ability of application servers to deliver high performance varies greatly, depending on the specifics of any given customer’s workload. IBM raises the bar for scalable, high-performance application servers with the introduction of IBM eServer X3 Architecturethe ground-breaking third-generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture XA-64e™ chipset. Incorporating this new chipset, the IBM eServer xSeries 366 and 460 have demonstrated unprecedented levels of performance and availability. X3 Architecture’s performance advantage over the competition, given various typical application server functions, has been demonstrated by recently published record-setting benchmark results (http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/benchmarks).

Given a variety of typical application server functions, IBM eServer X3 Architecture offers great improvements, in every instance, in overall system performance through the use of features not available on any competitor’s system. This paper will illustrate the benefits of IBM eServer X3 Architecture for typical application server functions, such as SSL encryption, messaging, Web service interactions (e.g., SOAP/XML serialization), HTTP services, and ODBC database interactions under various types of application server workloads. The paper presents the results of various test scenarios used to highlight the performance improvements that the reader can expect from systems based on X3 Architecture.

The term “application server” is applied broadly in the server world, but it typically pertains to a “middle-tier” server that receives requests from client systems, retrieves data from a separate database, and performs some data processing before returning a response. In this paper, the term “application server” refers to the commonly deployed, managed application server environments, such as Java™ application servers (e.g., IBM WebSphere®) and Microsoft® .NET application servers. The performance characteristics described in this paper were obtained from statistics collected from a selection of Microsoft .NET 1.1 applications running on an IBM eServer xSeries 366.

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Hardware Vendor CDM Requirements

The Common Diagnostic Model (CDM) is an architecture and methodology for exposing system diagnostic instrumentation through the Common Information Model (CIM) standard interfaces. CIM is an extensible object oriented schema for system management being developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and is evolving, industry-wide, as the basis for system management architectures. IBM, Intel and PC-Doctor, Inc., introduced the CDM at the DMTF annual conference in June of 1999. Since then, the proposed extensions required to support diagnostics have been accepted by the DMTF and included in Version 2.3 of the CIM schema (see the White paper at http://www.dmtf.org/educ/whit.html).

The ability to transparently run diagnostic tests and exercisers while the user operating system is functional (no reboot) can significantly contribute to the reduction of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and will also lower warranty costs by reducing the incidence of defect-free parts being returned for service. This functionality is referred to as OS-Present Diagnostics (a.k.a. On-line Diagnostics and Concurrent Diagnostics).

A primary objective of the CDM is to standardize the way Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) interface their OS-Present Diagnostics to the operating environment, making them accessible to all diagnostic applications that query CIM for diagnostic data and/or register with CIM to execute diagnostic methods and receive events.

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IBM POWER6 Processor-based Systems: Designed for Reliability

The base reliability of a computing system is, at its most fundamental level, dependent upon the intrinsic failure rates of the components that comprise it. Very simply, highly reliable servers are built with highly reliable components. On POWER6™ processor-based systems, this basic premise is augmented with a clear “design for reliability” architecture and methodology. The POWER6 Reliability strategy evolves from, and improves upon, the Reliability design points developed throughout the IBM POWER™ program.

At IBM, trained RAS engineers use a concentrated, systematic, architecture-based approach with the objective to improve overall server reliability with each successive generation of system offerings. At the core of this effort is an intensive focus on sensible, well-managed server design strategies that both stress high system instruction execution performance and require logic circuit implementations that operate consistently and reliably despite potentially wide disparities in manufacturing process variances and operating environments. Intensive critical circuit path modeling and simulation procedures are used to identify critical system timing dependencies, so that time-dependent system operations complete successfully under a wide variety of process tolerances.

This white paper provides an overview of the design points that contribute to a reliable POWER6 processor-based system.

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Managing your HP Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity servers and HP 9000 servers

Your business needs to grow, increase profitability, and gain competitive advantage. To achieve this, you need an IT infrastructure that helps you reduce operational costs, accelerate the speed of IT change, and deliver higher quality of service to increase business efficiency. And that’s where the HP Adaptive Infrastructure comes into play. Through the use of technology, you can achieve better business outcomes.

Virtualization is a catalyst in the transformation to an Adaptive Infrastructure. Virtualization is an approach to pooling and sharing IT resources so that supply always meets demand. With virtualization solutions from HP, you can reduce costs, increase agility, and improve the quality of your IT service delivery.

The HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers allows you to optimize server utilization in real time. The VSE delivers additional resources to critical applications during peak times by creating virtual servers that automatically grow and shrink based on business priorities. Through tight integration of intelligent control with partitioning, high availability, and utility pricing, the HP VSE allows you to maintain service levels and pay for spare capacity on an as-needed basis. The heart of the HP Virtual Server Environment is a fully integrated software family for planning, management, and automation that includes:
•HP Capacity Advisor
•HP Virtualization Manager
•HP Global Workload Manager

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Alternatives to HP SNA Server for OpenVMS Integrity servers

HP SNA Server for OpenVMS Alpha (SNA Server) is a layered software product that allows appropriately configured OpenVMS Alpha or VAX systems to be a part of IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) network. After installing the SNA Server and one or more SNA access routines, you can perform the following functions:

• Access IBM application programs or other system resources
• Act as 3270 display station
• Exchange data files and documents with an IBM host
• Implement distributed application programs that run between the OpenVMS Alpha and IBM systems The HP SNA Server for OpenVMS will not be ported on to Integrity servers. However, you can use the following communication options for an OpenVMS Integrity server system to become a part of IBM SNA network:
• HP SNA Access Server for Windows (Access Server)
• HP DECnet SNA Gateway for Synchronous Transport (ST)
• HP DECnet SNA Gateway for Channel Transport (CT)
• Mainframe Gateway for OpenVMS (MGO)

You can also choose to continue to run HP SNA Server for OpenVMS Alpha or VAX systems and move the applications on to Integrity servers. The applications can access the SNA Server through DECnet or TCP/IP. This solution can be used only if you would like to retain the existing Alpha or VAX systems to run the SNA Server.

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HP MediaSmart Server User’s Guide

The HP MediaSmart Server is a home server for families with multiple computers on a home network who want to enjoy their digital experiences when and where they want. The HP MediaSmart Server includes remote access to files, automatic computer backups, virtually unlimited storage expendability, media streaming to the entertainment center, and HP’s new Photo Webshare. Help is available from most windows on the HP MediaSmart Server.

Installing
In this chapter you’ll connect the HP MediaSmart Server to you home network and install the software on your first home computer.
What’s in this chapter
» Overview of the HP MediaSmart Server Setup
» Before Starting
» Connecting the server
» Turning on the HP MediaSmart Server
» Checking the Server Lights
» Updating Your Firewall’s Trusted Program List
» Installing the Software on the First Computer
» Congratulations! You are ready to start using your server

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Server virtualization technologies for x86-based HP BladeSystem & HP ProLiant servers

Virtual machine technology is the most widely understood and adopted form of server virtualization technology today. Virtual machine technology is a powerful capability that can reduce costs and power use while improving resource utilization. In x86 environments, there are two basic approaches to virtual machine technology: full virtualization, and paravirtualization. This technology brief describes both methods and explains how the virtualization technologies within x86-based processors assist virtual machine software. This technology brief describes several infrastructure considerations when using virtual machine technology with industry-standard (x86-based) servers.

Yet beyond the creation of virtual machines, there are more opportunities available with server virtualization. HP is applying virtualization to other aspects of the data center and uniting virtual and physical resource management to create truly adaptive and flexible infrastructures. HP is integrating virtual machine technology from third-party vendors into ProLiant servers to enable virtual machines directly out-of-the-box and to simplify virtual machine management. However, not all applications are well-suited for virtual machines today, particularly those with high I/O or deterministic latency requirements.

With Virtual Connect technology, HP has applied virtualization to the server connections to local area networks and storage area networks to simplify a myriad of common data center processes. HP has also introduced the concept of logical servers, which bring together Virtual Connect, virtual machine, and integrated management technologies so IT administrators can create and manage virtual machines and physical machines in the same manner throughout the lifecycle of a server. The paper describes how HP management software can be combined with HP and third-party virtualization technologies to create end-to-end virtualized solutions that promote operational efficiency.

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Oracle Application Server Quick Installation Guide for hp Tru64 UNIX

This guide is intended for users who want to install Oracle Application Server in these configurations:
■ Java Developer topology: Intended for Java developers. This topology installs a J2EE and Web Cache middle tier, on which you can deploy your applications.
■ Portal and Wireless Developer topology: Intended for Java developers who want to use OracleAS Portal, Oracle Application Server Wireless, Oracle Internet Directory, or Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On features, in addition to J2EE and Web Cache features. This topology installs a Portal and Wireless middle tier and the OracleAS Infrastructure.
■ Forms and Reports Developer topology: Intended for developers who want to use OracleAS Personalization, OracleAS Reports Services, or OracleAS Forms Services features, in addition to J2EE and Web Cache and Portal and Wireless features. This topology installs a Forms and Reports middle tier and the OracleAS Infrastructure.

If you want more complex topologies, read the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide for complete installation instructions. Before installing Oracle Application Server, you should read the Oracle Application Server Release Notes for the latest information

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HP ProLiant DL360 Generation 5 Server Data sheet

You expect high performance from your business servers— but you also want them to be flexible, ultra-reliable, and easy to deploy and manage. And often, they need to do all this while packed together in tight, constrained spaces.

Combining concentrated 1U compute power, robust remote management and essential fault tolerance, the ProLiant DL360 is enhanced for such installations. Quad-core and Dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors, DDR2 fully buffered DIMMs, serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and PCI Express technology provide a high-performance system ideal for the full range of scale out applications. What’s more, it steps up fault tolerance in an ultra-dense platform with redundant power, redundant fans, mirrored memory or online spare memory, embedded RAID capability, and full-featured remote Lights-Out management.

The powerful HP ProLiant DL360 G5 introduces an unprecedented number of technology enhancements. Now available with Intel Xeon processor 5300/5100/5000 series and large memory capacity, it combines powerful processing power with advanced management capability for a complete ultra-dense server platform.

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The HP Integrity server family

The HP Integrity family is the perfect addition to the HP portfolio of industry-leading servers for building your adaptive enterprise—a portfolio that includes:
•The new HP Integrity servers, based on Intel® Itanium® processors
•HP NonStop servers, moving in the near future to Intel Itanium processors
•HP ProLiant servers, based on Intel IA-32 processors
•HP 9000 servers, based on PA-RISC processors
•HP AlphaServers systems, based on Alpha processors Whatever type of servers your solution requires, from entry level up to high end, the flexibility, power, and investment protection offered by the HP Integrity server family lets you demand more—more accountability, more agility, and a better return on IT.

Accountability
Our commitment to your enterprise goes beyond simply supplying a hardware platform. Whether you want to implement a new business application, build a high-availability clustered solution, or port an existing application, you can trust that HP will be there to assure your success. We’ll help you shorten time to implementation and increase the availability an productivity of your environment by delivering complete solutions with industry-leading services, support, consulting, education, and financing.

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Java performance on the HP Integrity NonStop server

ITUG Connection readers have plenty of practical experience in running Java™ technology based applications in the NonStop server environment. If they have found the results to be less than optimal in the past, they will be very pleasantly surprised at the performance of these applications on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor–based HP Integrity NonStop server. In the following interview, HP Technical

Consultant Frans Jongma explains why.
Connection: People have not always been happy with the performance of Java on NonStop systems, saying that the server is too slow. Is this complaint justified? Frans Jongma: Many of us who deal with NonStop customers that use Java may have come across this remark. Defending against such claims has not been easy in the past.

However, with the new HP Integrity NonStop servers based on Intel Itanium technology, things have changed. People who tried Java on NonStop systems a year ago will be surprised when they try again today, on the new Itanium based machines.

Connection: Why are things different now?
Frans Jongma: In the days of the NonStop S-series server, there was a significant problem: the clock speed of the processor. Compare the 550 MHz R14000 processor (built by MIPS) in the S86000 server, or the 800 MHz R16000 processor in the S88000 server, to the clock speed of your current laptop. With the introduction of the processor–based NS-series systems, Integrity NonStop servers have stepped onto the performance path of today’s servers. The new machines operate at clock speeds two to three times higher than the NonStop S-series machines.

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HP solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

If you’re using Exchange 5.5, or Exchange Server 2000, you can get more out of your investments and reduce costs by migrating to Exchange Server 2003 on an industry-standard HP platform.

HP servers are optimized for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. HP Services make it easy to migrate by using best-of-breed tools and vast experience gained from deploying more than 14 million Exchange seats. Pre-tested HP server configurations for Exchange Server 2003 streamline the migration process, accelerating your time to benefits.

Reduce costs by consolidating Exchange servers HP ProLiant server consolidation simplifies management requirements, adds flexibility and reduces the operating cost of your Exchange environments. ProLiant BL, DL and ML servers provide a highly reliable, cost-effective server consolidation solution. HP ProLiant Essentials Workload Management Pack (WMP) is a software solution that controls and dynamically allocates system resources. Now it’s easy to change the number of processors dedicated to any particular task, based on time or utilization rules. A recent study on the Exchange Server Market by Windows & .NET Magazine in Association with Up2Right Consulting concluded that 54 percent of all Exchange implementations run on ProLiant servers. ProLiant servers, in combination with HP StorageWorks products, enhance the capabilities of Exchange Server 2003 for more intelligent utilization of server and storage resources.

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HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade takes world record

Designed to deliver unmatched performance and expansion in the densest four-processor server blade form-factor available, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade demonstrated those features with its results on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark. With 34,000 SAP SD Benchmark users, the ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade earned the titles of #1 four-processor server for the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark.

The benchmarks were performed by HP’s SAP Engineering lab in Houston, TX. HP completed the testing with a 100% BladeSystem solution across all three tiers in a configuration available from HP today. HP received certification from SAP AG for the ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade (2008003) on February 26, 2008. The servers were running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 database, and the SAP ERP 6.0 application. The sixteen servers were configured with 16 x 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 7340 processors (4 processors/16 cores/16 threads), with 2 x 4MB L2 cache per 2 cores and 16×4GB DIMMS (64GB total main memory). The Xeon 7300 series include the first Quad-Core processors from Intel designed to be used in servers with four or more processors. The ProLiant BL680c G5 utilized an Onboard Smart Array P400i Controller with 512MB battery-backed write cache (BBWC) attached to 2 x 72GB 15K SAS Drives and 3 x QLogic HBAs with each attached to 1 x MSA1000 (3 total) with 2 x MSA30 (6 total) each with 14 x 72GB 15K SCSI Drives (126 total), and 3 x HP BladeSystem c7000 rack enclosures.

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How to install Microsoft Hyper-V on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades

Microsoft® Hyper-V (formerly Viridian), is a hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a key feature of Windows® Server 2008. Hyper-V serves to help customers consolidate server hardware, improve server utilization, increase server automation, and enhance system portability. Additionally, Hyper-V reduces hardware costs and power consumption. This document describes, step-by-step, how to manually install Hyper-V on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades. Detailed instructions on how to install Windows Server 2008 are not included in this document.

Target audience: Customers with Windows Server 2008 who need a quick and easy guide to install Hyper-V on ProLiant c-Class server blades.

System requirements
Hardware requirements
The test environment is based on HP ProLiant c-Class server blades, and includes:
• Test blades: BL460c, BL465c, BL480c, BL680c, BL685c.
• Recommended server configuration for best performance should be dual-core or quad-core processors, 4 GB memory or greater and 70GB free disk space
• HP BladeSystem c-Class c3000 or c7000 enclosures
• Dongles and USB 2.0 DVD drive

Note
Microsoft Hyper-V installation is not limited to c-Class server blades. HP ProLiant servers with x64 Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) hardware assisted virtualization also support Hyper-V

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IBM x3755 AMD Opteron Server CPU Performance and Xcelerated Memory

The IBM System x3755 out performed the HP DL585 G2 by 10.4% using SPECjbb2005 with identical CPU and Memory configurations. This exemplifies the Xcelerated Memory Technology™ and its ability to deliver a performance advantage.

The IBM System x3755 when configured with three processors and IBM’s CPU Pass Thru card out performed the HP DL585 G2 configured with four processors by 27.7%. This illustrates the System x3755 CPU utilization advantage

The IBM CPU Pass Thru card provides a solution for potential savings with ISVs who have a licensing fee structure based on CPUs. The x3755 with Pass Thru card would provide equal or better system performance for a lower software licensing fee.

The test environment consisted of IBM System x3755 and HP DL585G2 server. Both servers ran Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1. The IBM System x3755 specifications included 4 dual-core AMD Opteron 2.8GHz processors, 32GB(DDR2 PC5300) RAM, and a 273GB SAS hard drive. The HP DL585 G2 specifications included 4 dual-core AMD Opteron 2.8GHz processors, 32GB (DDR2 PC5300) RAM, and a 204GB SAS hard drive. Due to the nature of the benchmark tool utilized, hard drive size was not a determining factor in performance. Additional description and details can be found in Appendix A. SPECjbb2005 was installed on both servers. SPECjbb2005 is a benchmark for evaluating the performance of servers running typical Java business applications. The same test methodology and configurations of SPECjbb2005 were executed on both servers, and scores from SPECjbb2005 were used to compare IBM CPU Pass Thru card and Xcelerated Memory Technology™ memory performance.

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Server Sensor Version 7.0 for HP-UX Advanced Tuning Parameters Reference Document

The server sensor version 7.0 software supports advanced tuning parameters. Advanced tuning parameters allow you to configure (or tune) the server sensor to better meet your security needs or to enhance the performance of your hardware.
Name/value pairs
Tuning parameters are composed of name/value pairs.
Using tuning parameters
You can use tuning parameters to configure predefined name/value pairs.

Windows used for tuning parameters
You can configure tuning parameters using the following windows:
• Policy Editor window
• Sensor Properties window

Policy Editor window
When you configure tuning parameters in the Policy Editor window, the parameters apply to the policy file you have open. You must save any setting changes and then apply the policy to a server sensor for the changes to take effect.

Because you can apply the policy to as many server sensors as you want, you can use the Policy Editor window to make global configurations. You should, however, ensure that the changes you have made are appropriate for all of the sensors you apply the policy to.

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HP ProLiant ML370 Generation 5 Server Data sheet

Powerful server for ongoing access and uptime needs
Engineered for improved system expansion and service - ability, the HP ProLiant ML370 Generation 5 (G5) Server provides outstanding performance in a two- processor expansion server. In fact, it consistently ranks at the top of TPC-C benchmarks for performance and price/performance. Now available with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon™ processors that deliver performance gains for multi-thread applications, the ML370 server is ideal for today’s increasingly demanding compute environments. The flagship ML370 provides leading management, performance and availability in a dual-processor expansion server engineered to excel in a variety of environments—from corporate work groups in growing businesses to critical remote sites requiring accessibility and uptime.

Key features
•Proven performance with Quad-Core/Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors—for demanding scale-out applications
•Designed for flexibility and expansion—allowing customers room to grow as their business grows HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 remote management and Systems Insight Manager software enable nearly continuous access from anywhere, making the ML370 an excellent fit for remote deployments.
•Powerful HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) technology embedded—allowing customers the ability to manage their servers anytime, anywhere
•Enterprise-class redundancy with optional hot plug fans and power supplies—providing improved uptime

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SAS Metadata Server 5.01 With Hewlett-Packard’s Serviceguard on HP-UX Itanium

The HP Partner Technology Access Center – New Jersey (PTAC-NJ) has successfully integrated the SAS Metadata Server 5.01 application, one of the SAS 9.1.3 Foundation Servers, with Serviceguard A.11.16.00 under HP-UX 11i V2 (11.23) on the Itanium platform. The implementation and validation of the SAS Metadata Server followed the PTAC-NJ’s High Availability Implementation and Validation Process.

This application has been validated and found to work with Serviceguard using the information contained within this document. To ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction, customers requesting support for the scripts contained herein should first contact the SAS Institute, who will work with HP Support should assistance with Serviceguard be needed.

Information regarding the process followed for this validation, and how other ISVs may take advantage of this service, is available in these PTAC-NJ documents:
Appendix 19: HP’s Partner Technology Access Center High Availability Implementation and Validation Services Datasheet
Appendix 20: HP’s Partner Technology Access Center High Availability Implementation and Validation Services Process and Methodology

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HP Output Server and HP Output Manager for SAP

HP Output Server is the core platform of any HP Output Management solution—the intelligent link that gets critical documents from virtually any application to nearly any destination reliably and efficiently while saving money. Critical to making the connection between HP Output Server and your enterprise applications are powerful software integration modules such as HP Output Manager for SAP. Join the many enterprises employing SAP who have taken control of their output with an industry-leading solution from HP.

Reliable document delivery
• Enhance the native output capabilities of SAP applications. HP Output Manager for SAP provides a seamless link from SAP applications to the HP Output Server for reliable document delivery across the enterprise and centralized control and configuration of all output resources. The interface requires no customization of the SAP environment.
• Eliminate costly process breakdowns. No more manual distribution or wasted staff productivity—you can now reduce the time from document creation to document delivery. With features including job checkpointing and resubmission, HP Output Server automatically retains and retries jobs for quick resolution of output-related problems and accelerated realization of revenue.
• Keep information secure. With enhanced firewall traversal support, HP Output Server enables protected information distribution across the enterprise and to external partners.

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HP Data Center Automation Center

Are you relying on outmoded manual data center management techniques that can’t meet today’s requirements? Many IT organizations still use manual practices developed when servers were dedicated to single applications that seldom changed. Today, manual techniques are obsolete. IT needs to manage complex multi-vendor infrastructures cost-effectively while complying with corporate policies. And there’s only one way to meet the challenge. Automate.

HP Data Center Automation Center
The HP Software approach supplies a complete suite of data center automation applications that focuses on business outcomes to deliver cost efficiency, quality and compliance in the most complex environments:
•Reduced cost: By automating mundane but necessary day-to-day operations, it enables your IT organization to shift funding to strategic initiatives and frees administrators to spend more time on developing applications that build competitive advantage.
•Better compliance: By automating responses to Sarbanes-Oxley audits and similar regulatory requirements and providing out-of-the-box compliance reports, it reduces time and expense and at the same time helps to enable total compliance.
• Disaster recovery: By providing an up-to-date model of your computing infrastructure and giving you global visibility down to individual software configurations, it makes it possible for you to quickly rebuild your data center from the ground up.
• Increased availability: By enabling your IT organization to follow best practices for change and configuration management and to standardize builds and configurations at the time of deployment, it increases network, server and application availability.

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