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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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What is the most probable cause for two memory modules to fail simultaneously on a rack mounted server?

Having spent some time on a rack mounted server yesterday afternoon we are now trying to determine the most probable cause of two DDR2 modules failing on an IBM server simultaneously. The server would boot with either both modules, and with one at a…
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Guest OS Support for VMWare ESXi 4 on an IBM xSeries 366 Server

I was able to install Windows Server 2008 R2 without a problem (which requires 64 bit) on an IBM xSeries 366 server. But I also found out the x366 doesn't support HAV so adding the Hyper-V role is out. I saw that the x366 is in the HCL for VMWare's…
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List of all IBM motherboard models with a certain socket?

I just got a really good deal on two Intel Quad Core Xeon L5420 processors and I have access to other deals on bare IBM servers (case+motherboard, no processor/ram/hdd). How can I easily find out what server or motherboard models will be compatible…
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I flashed my DS4700 with a 7 series firmware, now my DS4300 cannot read the disks I moved to that location. Can I low-level format these disk to restore the DAC?

In preparation for adding a number of 1Tb SATA disks to our DS4700 I flashed the controller firmware from a 6 series (which only supports up to 2Tb logical drives) to a 7 series (which supports larger than 2Tb logical drives). Attached to this…
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Which Storage administration course will be better?

I am working as a Linux admin. I would like to do a course in storage administration. Which should be the better certification path for me IBM tivoli or netapp ?
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Can ECC Chipkill be used in non-IBM servers?

Can IBM specific ram, such as 41Y2770 with ECC Chipkill, be used in non-IBM servers?
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Restart Fibre channel controller after blade bootup IBM HS bladecentre

I have a remote system that needs to resume on startup. If the system is simply powered on then the blades boot before the SAN is online and then the only thing you can do is restart the systems. Is it possible to restart the fibre channel…
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IBM Bladecentre H Bootup Sequence Control

I have a bladecentre with blades, network and a SAN in a single rack. What I'd like to do is control the startup of the bladecentre so that when the rack is powered on that the blades will delay their bootup until the SAN is powered on correctly. Is…
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What is the correct PCI-X riser card for the IBM 3650 M2?

I bought a IBM 3650 M2, and a riser card for that, Part Number 46M1074. This is the PCI-X riser card. Now, my admin team says that the card isn't fitting?? I'm not personally at the scene, but I've checked on the net, and this DOES seem to be the…
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SAN cache memory upgrade

We currently have an IBM DS4300 Dual Controller Fibre SAN. It is a good box, but getting pretty old. It came with 256MB of cache per controller. Recently we replaced the batteries in one of the controllers and noticed that the cache is a DDR…
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IBM HS20 Blade server rebooting due to NMI Error

I have an HS20 Blade which is mounted inside a BladeCenter H Console. When I first boot the machine, it displays the following error: See the System Error Log. Re-booting due to unexpected NMI at 0012:7AA4. (See screenshot below for more…
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how to recover a .c file in AIX unix which has removed (rm -f) by accidentally

how to recover a .c file in AIX unix which has removed (rm -f) by accidentally
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Syslog-ng service error on restart - syslog forward to Qradar

Hopefully my qeustion is in the right place. I am currently trying to forward syslogs from an Ubuntu machine to a Qradar machine. They're on the same network and i already managed to get Rsyslog to work, but it isn't supported by Qradar. Therefore,…
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AIX Samba user access getpwuid failed

I have installed Samba 4.12.10 via yum in AIX 7.2. I have also installed kerberos package to authenticate samba with kerberos. My objective is to allow users access of folders/files in AIX from their windows machines. # yum list installed | grep…
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Migrate from IBM Directory Server 8 to MS Active Directory (Windows Server 2019)

We are in a project to migrate users and passwords from IBM Directory Server v8 to Microsoft Active Directory. Use of IBM Directory Integrator (LDAPSync) is referenced in official IBM documentation. I wanted to know if someone has had a similar case…
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