PDF files for the 8204-E8A (IBM Power 550)

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System overview

License Agreement for Machine Code (approximately 1.5 MB)
Statement of Limited Warranty (approximately 5.4 MB)
Safety Inspection Guide (approximately 590 KB)
Safety Notices (approximately 6.5 MB)

Planning for the system

Site and hardware planning (approximately 23 MB)
Site preparation and physical planning (approximately 4 MB)

Installing and configuring the system and system devices

Road map for installing the IBM® Power 550 Express® (8204-E8A and 9409-M50) (approximately 2 MB)
Upgrading the system and data migration (approximately 2 MB)
Backplanes (approximately 10 MB)
Control panel, control panel fillers, and signal cables (approximately 6 MB)
Disk drives (approximately 14 MB)
Enclosures and expansion units (approximately 10 MB)
Host Ethernet Adapters (approximately 6 MB)
Serial-attached SCSI RAID enablement (approximately 7 MB)
Managing devices (approximately 2 MB)
Managing PCI adapters (approximately 4 MB)
Media devices (approximately 6 MB)
Memory modules (approximately 15 MB)
PCI adapters (approximately 40 MB)
PCI adapter placement for machine types 82xx and 91xx (approximately 2 MB)
Power supplies (approximately 7 MB)
Rack, rack features, and installing systems or expansion units into a rack (approximately 12 MB)
GX RIO-2/HSL-2 adapters and GX 12x channel adapters (approximately 8 MB)
System processor assembly (approximately 11 MB)
Voltage regulators (approximately 8 MB)

Working with consoles, terminals, and interfaces

Road map for installing the Hardware Management Console (approximately 1 MB)
Installing and configuring the Hardware Management Console (approximately 3 MB)
Managing the Hardware Management Console (approximately 4 MB)
Managing the Advanced System Management Interface (approximately 2 MB)
Managing IBM i consoles (approximately 2 MB)

Managing system resources

Capacity on demand (approximately 1 MB)
Introduction to virtualization (approximately 1.7 MB)
Logical partitioning (approximately 3 MB)
Power VM Lx86 for x86 Linux Applications Administration Guide (approximately 1.3 MB)
Managing devices (approximately 2 MB)
Virtual I/O Server and Integrated Virtualization Manager commands (approximately 4.4 MB)
Virtual I/O Server (approximately 1.3 MB)

Troubleshooting, service, and support

Troubleshooting POWER6 processor-based systems

Beginning troubleshooting and problem analysis (approximately 1.2 MB)
Progress codes (approximately 2 MB)
Service request numbers (approximately 9 MB)
System reference codes (1xxx - Axxx) (approximately 7 MB)
System reference codes (Bxxx) (approximately 11 MB)
System reference codes (Cxxx - Hxxx) (approximately 5 MB)

Service and support for POWER6 systems

Failing function codes (approximately 6 MB)
Isolation procedures (approximately 6 MB)
System parts Information (approximately 22 MB)
IBM Power 550 Express (8204-E8A and 9409-M50) removal and replacement procedures (approximately 62 MB)
Hardware Management Console models 7042-CR4, 7042-C06, and 7042-C07 service (approximately 3 MB)
AIX® diagnostic and service aids (approximately 535 KB)
IBM i service functions (approximately 6 MB)
SAS RAID controllers for Linux (approximately 2 MB)
SAS RAID controllers for AIX (approximately 2 MB)

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Last updated: Fri, January 20, 2012