xREF: System x Reference

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Posted by Olaf Menke on 24 April 2012 at 4:46

Hello, nice new look and feel.
But I'm missing the information about the Blade Center chassis and the Flex Enterprise chassis in this document. The information about the Blade Center chassis was in in the former (older) uxref documents. It will be helpful to get this information back and to get the information of the Flex Enterprise chassis in addition in the document.

Posted by David Watts on 25 April 2012 at 7:17

Good idea Olaf. We'll add those to the document as soon as we can.

Posted by Mr. KAI KOERNER on 2 May 2012 at 3:44

Hi there,
Speaking of chassis, I noticed that the iDataPlex chassis (M/T 7913 -> air cooled, and M/T 7918 -> water cooled) aren't listed nor is the water cooled dx360 M4 node (M/T 7918). Maybe you can add those to a later release of the document as well. Thanks

Posted by David Watts on 3 May 2012 at 7:19

Yes we'll look at adding the iDataPlex chassis and the water-cooled dx360 M4 too. In the meantime, you can read about those in the latest draft of the iDataPlex redbook, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247629.html?Open

Posted by James Sierra on 6 June 2012 at 10:54

Looking for 7945-D2x. Seems to be missing.

Posted by David Watts on 7 June 2012 at 9:14

Hi James, thanks for your feedback - You'll see x3650 M3 model 7945-D2x in the next release. Here are the details of the model:

Model: 7945-D2x
Processor: 1x Xeon E5620 2.40 GHz 4C 12 MB 1066 MHz
Second CPU: 59Y4020
Memory: 1x 4 GB
RAID controller: M1015
Disk bays: 8 / 16 max
Disk: Open
Ethernet: 2x GbE
Optical: Optional
Power supply: 1x 675 W
Announced: March 2010

Posted by David Watts on 7 June 2012 at 9:16

@Olaf, in case you hadn't noticed, I have added the BladeCenter and Flex System chassis. Next is the dx360 M4 2U chassis. Only the air cooled though - We only list systems with generally available models and the water cooled systems are configure-to-order only.

Posted by Mr. Shawn Nickell on 31 August 2012 at 17:21

Looking for 7978-PPx

Posted by David Watts on 1 September 2012 at 13:48

Hi Shawn, I can't find any information on this model, beyond that it is a System x3550 (based on the machine type). What is the "x" letter on your system's model?

Posted by Mr. Shawn Nickell on 4 September 2012 at 13:12

7978-PPF

Posted by David Watts on 5 September 2012 at 7:19

I found this: does it help?
System x3550, 2 x Dual-Core Xeon 3 GHz/4 MB, FSB 1333 MHz, RAM 1 GB, HD 0GB, ServeRAID 8k-l, CD-RW

Posted by Mr. Michael Funston on 19 September 2012 at 14:56

I noticed references on page 31 of the 10 Sep document to models of the x3530 M4 with a type of 7914-xxx. I think this may be a typo - Isn't the 7914-xxx indicative of an x3550 M4 server.

Posted by David Watts on 20 September 2012 at 9:34

You're right Michael, those machine types should be 7160. I will fix that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Posted by Mr. Arthur Blummer on 29 October 2013 at 22:12

on the xref pdf file pages 84 and 85 it appears that the maximum memory for the x240 v2 is stated incorrectly as 512 when it should be 786 GB.

Memory maximums With LRDIMMs: Up to 512 GB with 16x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors
With RDIMMs: Up to 384 GB with 24x 16 GB RDIMMs and two processors
With UDIMMs: Up to 128 GB with 16x 8 GB UDIMMs and two processors

each time it should be 24 x 32 or 16 or 8

Posted by David Watts on 30 October 2013 at 7:28

You're right Arthur. It should read:

With LRDIMMs: Up to 768 GB with 24x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors

I'll fix that.
David.

Posted by Mr. Arthur Blummer on 31 October 2013 at 1:04

Thank you David Watts !

Posted by Mr. Сергей Русинов on 30 January 2014 at 0:31

Hi, dear. I find a server like IBM eServer xSeries 346 (Type 8840) to install an "Elastix 2.4.0 х64". But there is an important question - is it work with CentOS 5.9 ? Are anybody install CentOS 5.9 ? Is it work fine or not work ? I need a server working fine with CentOS 5.9 with support a RAID1 for SCSI-discs. And with Digium telephony card TE212P. By size. Thanx.

Posted by David Watts on 31 January 2014 at 7:34

Hi Mr Русинов. CentOS isn't one of the Linux distros that IBM tests on its servers. However CentOS is listed on the Other Distributions page on ServerProven, http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/os/linux/other/#Other_Linux_distributions so maybe it will work. Maybe this page helps too: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/x86servers/serverproven/compat/us/xseries_old/x346.html

Posted by Mr. Андрей Стебнев on 26 March 2014 at 13:47

Looking for 7979-KRG

Posted by David Watts on 27 March 2014 at 7:21

Hi, 7979-KRG is an x3650 Express Model, announced February 2008 and withdrawn May 2008. You can find the specs of the model in the announcement:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/877/ENUSZG08-0238/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

The announcement says the model is based on 7979BAG which you can find on page 330 of the old pre-2012 withdrawn products xREF at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/usxref-w.pdf

Hope this helps.
David.

Posted by Budge Burgess on 14 July 2014 at 13:24

Interesting- an Android app for Redbooks. After the rumour about Lenovo and xSeries, I offered to add them to the PC Sales Guide/Configurator (Lenovo) - thereby making the xSeries also visible in LenovoLook, a companion tool for selected BlackBerry phones and Android devices. So far Lenovo has not responded. LenovoLook is only useful if it has one or more databases. See www.pscfg.com/android.htm for screen captures & download instructions. Sample databases available (see side panel)

Posted by Budge Burgess on 14 July 2014 at 18:03

Not enough room to mention one of the sample databases is Fr. Canadian ThinkStations, where the product descriptions are in French. Another has German ThinkServers. Of course if you install the Configurator you can create your own product family databases, with the product descriptions in either English, French or German. If I had some translation assistance for other languages (e.g. Spanish) I could do a version for them as well. Customer quotations should be in the local language IMHO.

Posted by Budge Burgess on 13 February 2015 at 15:50

I am catching up on adding new Lenovo products to the PC Sales Guide/Configurator, and am about ready to start adding the system X family. Anyone willing to volunteer to be a tester please drop me a note. That would be much appreciated, and speed up the population of the database. I already have a price list ready to go. There are a number of interesting developments regarding the Configurator tool suite. Stay tuned.

Posted by Mr. David Watts on 16 February 2015 at 9:01

Hi Budge, I don't have the time to be a reviewer sorry - maybe others will. BTW, did you know there are already configurator tools for System x products - SSCT and x-config? See http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/configtools.html There's also http://www-304.ibm.com/easyaccess/emeacto for Europe.


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Publish Date
06 March 2012

Last Update
12 August 2015


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ISBN-10
0738451126

IBM Form Number
REDP-XREF-00