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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 X3200 M2 Fan running at full speed? Noisy

One of the FANs (the one cooling the hard drives I think) in our IBM X3200 M2 started running at full speed and make a loud noise. Anyone encountered this problem and know how to fix this?
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How to disable the built-in RAID in x3650 M3?

We have an IBM server x3650 M3, and I'm trying to install Linux without using HW RAID (ServeRAID), as per cluster storage software vendor requirements. The problem is that the server exposes the physical drives only to WebBios interface, and Linux…
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Problems booting an IBM Server with ServerRaid 4Lx

I have an IBM server xSeries 205 with a ServeRaid 4Lx on it that after a power faliure refused to boot. it presented a error message during ServerRaid BIOS boot phase stating: ServeRAID? ,Slot1, Status: Controller register test failed, test number…
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IBM ServeRAID M5015 how do I view info from Ubuntu?

I have an IBM x3620 M3 server that has root@web26:~# lshw -short /0/100/9/0 scsi4 storage LSI MegaSAS 9260 /0/100/9/0/2.0.0 /dev/sda disk 1990GB ServeRAID M5015 hardware raid controller. How do I view the RAID array status, SMART status and issue…
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Installing Windows XP on an IBM x335 server

Is there a way to install Windows XP on an IBM x335 server? When I boot from CD-ROM with the Windows XP installation disk, the screen is just blank. Initial research indicates this may be due to the SCSI controller. I'll update as I find out…
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How do I configure the IP address of an IBM 4247-003 printer?

Apparently this is really hard. The printer was bought to replace a twinax-connected printer, but the installer was struggling with two issues: How do you set the IP address, netmask and gateway for the IBM 4247-003 printer? Or how do you set it to…
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What does Quick Initialized RAID status mean?

We have re-created RAID1 on our IBM X3400, with the 8K-l RAID card, and now the RAID1 is in status of Quick Initialized. I've read online that the performance of this status is might not be optimal, and some actions required to bring the operation…
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IBM ServeRAID bad stripes and synchronize

After one of the drives in our IBM RAID gone, we bought a new one and replaced it. The rebuilding went fine, but now we see "Bad stripes" reported for the logical disk. Moreover, some data can not be read from the disk, and ServeRAID reports bad…
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Re-Configuring TCP IP of an AIX system ( LPAR P770/AIX 5.3)

I have serverA and serverB (AIX LPARS on SystemP) I want to switch hostname and IP configurations between serverA and serverB. Is it enough to perform the changes via smitty mktcpip or do I have to make changes via the HMC ( Hardware Management…
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OS2/Warp - Remotely Stop and Restart a Program

Our current phone system runs off of a legacy OS2/Warp box. Periodically we have to log into the machine and restart OS2RSD.exe and then start it again and the phone system starts working again. The problem is we have to physically get in front of…
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Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration

I am trying to install Windows Web Server 2008 x64 (have tried 32-bit, too) onto an IBM eServer 326m and am getting the following error message some time after the unpacking files section: Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.…
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HP/IBM alternative to Buffalo iSCSI TerraStation?

I'm looking at virtualising some of our infrastructure in order to allow for more resiliance and future expandability. We have successfully virtualised on single servers with Direct Attached Storage and are now looking for a more future proof…
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What is better to have more LUNs or more Storages

what is better to have - more LUNs or more Storages. Actually i have 1 storage ESXi per 1 LUN so there are about 15 LUNs and 15 storages. Now there is a kind of problem because the LUNs have different space allocated so if i remove 2 LUNs f.e. 1 2 3…
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DS3400 - Getting exact operation progress

Ended up adding a disk to a DS3400 array. Unfortunately it's been going for nearly 3 days now. Is there a way through CLI or otherwise that I can actually see what the completed percentage is? Thank you.
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Is all PC2100 memory compatible?

I want to put 2 more 1GB DIMM's into a server to bring its memory up to 4GB. But I'm wondering whether I can do this. The sticker on the memory currently in it shows PC2100 2.5v. It's an IBM eServer 345. I'm just wondering if any PC2100 memory is…
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