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IBM is a computer hardware and software vendor operating in a variety of market spaces, including Unix systems, "midrange" (AS/400) systems, Mainframes, and consumer workstations/laptops. This is a generic tag designed to be used if no more specific tag exists for your IBM product. See the partial list of IBM tags in the full tag wiki

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IBM server x 3850 (4X8core Xeon 7560), RedHat 5.6, free -mt on terminal shown only 32 GB?

I'm remotely SSH-ing an IBM server-x running RedHat 5.6. The server has 4 CPUs with 8 cores each, which is verified by cat /proc/cpuinfo But free -mt show only the 32 G-RAM (which is correct for one CPU), not the expected 128 GB. Why is that? Is…
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Hard Drive (Failure) IBM x336, Diagnose and Fix RAID-1 & Configure IBM Software

A year ago I was given an old IBM x336 server to run some personal projects on, now I knew nothing about servers at all so just put some more RAM in, wiped and disks and installed Ubuntu Server on it and have been using it to host some web services…
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How to verify mirror configuration

I have an IBM blade server and we've installed RedHat Linux on the machine. How can we check if we have both disks running as a mirror, or if everything is only running on a single disk? What commands can I use to discover this? Diana
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Query IBM domino server linux package

I have used rpm -qa to export the list of package installed on the linux machine. After which, I didn't see any IBM domino server related packages in the exported file. May I know what is the possible situations that prevents IBM domino server…
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Adaptec 7901 and RAID 10 Degraded

I have an IBM xSeries 226 with an Adaptec HostRAID 7902 SCSI adapter. I have 4 73GB drives setup in a RAID 10 array. Everytime I reboot the system now the RAID utility shows the array as degraded and lists drives on ID 1 and 2 to be degraded. The…
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IBM xSeries 335 General Questions (power usage and installation)

I just received a 2nd hand IBM xSeries 335 1U rack mountable server, and I have a few questions about it: How do I install it? Is there an Installation Utility disk like for the HP Proliant servers (SmartStart do they call it if I remember…
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Buying new IBM Blade. Considering SSDs for heavy IOPS configuration

I am in market for a new server and I require heavy disk iops. Our retailer is offering an IBM BLADE HS22 with dual Xeons, but limited to RAID0/1. For some reason the only SSDs he can offer me are 50GB drives for 1000$ each. I am considering buying…
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My ClearCase Registry Backup log is empty, should I be worried?

it may seems silly, but I just realised... I am doing a check-up of all my ClearCase server logs on a weekly basis, using the ClearCase Log Browser. I generally only look for errors, so I don't pay much attention to empty logs. But maybe, the fact…
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How hazardaous is leaving IBM RAID in bad stripes mode?

One of disks in our RAID 1 configuration gone bad, and caused the whole logical disk to become in bad stripes mode. We replaced the bad disk with a new one and complete the rebuild, but the logical drive still in bad stripes mode. Now, IBM says that…
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System Seller Firmware Update Policy IBM

I've heard that IBM expects from their sellers/partners to update machines before shipping to customers to the most recent firmware (uEFI/AMM/IMM/RSA etc.) releases. Can anyone comment on that one?
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IBM x3200 M2 and chaning the CPU

As my server IBM x3200 M2 and CPU (E4600) does not have VT-x for virtualization (I would like to virtualize Windows in XenServer), may I substitute this CPU for some core2duo or core2quad that supports VT-x ? Does the motherboard have to support…
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IBM X3650 with Red Hat Enterprise 4.8 kernel panics with error on empty memory bank

I have 3 IBM X3650 load balanced (round robin) with Red Hat Enterprise 4.8. One of them has intermittent kernel panics and reports an error on 2 particular memory banks (3 and 5) which are empty. I only have memory module on bank 1,4,7 and 10. I…
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Does the ClearCase administrator account needs to be an Windows Administrator to manage the ClearCase Web Server application

we are using ClearCase here (version 7.0.1), and the ClearCase WebServer is installed on a box different from the ClearCase VOBs and Views servers. The box used is also hosting another application and audit/IT security here have questionned the fact…
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Old xSeries 8827 with SLES11, upgrade path suggestions

First time poster... I have three, five year old, IBM 336 servers sitting in a rack behind a hardware firewall. No load balancing. They run a web based PHP app on top of Mysql. Our tech guy suggests moving towards VMWare virtualisation running…
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S.M.A.R.T Status of ServeRAID M5015 on Lenny?

any experience with checking smart status of a ServeRAID M5015 under debian 5 lenny? thanks!
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