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Contents
Summary of Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Information sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
IntelliStation
®
video adapter selection guide
ix
Chapter 1. IntelliStation M Pro 6218. . . . . . 3
Chapter 2. IntelliStation Z Pro 6223 . . . . . 15
Chapter 3. IntelliStation Z Pro 9228 . . . . . 29
Chapter 4. IntelliStation A Pro 6217. . . . . 39
Chapter 5. xSeries 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 6. xSeries 206m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 7. xSeries 226 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 8. xSeries 236 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Chapter 9. xSeries 306m . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 10. xSeries 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Chapter 11. xSeries 346. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 12. System x3400 (7973, 7974). 153
Chapter 13. System x3400 (7975, 7976). 161
Chapter 14. System x3500 . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Chapter 15. System x3550 . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Chapter 16. System x3650 . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Chapter 17. System x3650 T . . . . . . . . . . 215
Chapter 18. System x3800 and xSeries 260
219
Chapter 19. System x3850 and xSeries 366
233
Chapter 20. System x3950 and xSeries 460
247
Chapter 21. Datacenter solution program .
265
Chapter 22. eServer 326m. . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Chapter 23. BladeCenter
®
T 8720. . . . . . 297
Chapter 24. BladeCenter
®
T 8730. . . . . . 305
Chapter 25. BladeCenter
®
chassis 8677 313
Chapter 26. BladeCenter
®
H 8852. . . . . . 321
Chapter 27. BladeCenter
®
HS20 - 7981 . 331
Chapter 28. BladeCenter
®
HS20 - 8843 . 337
Chapter 29. BladeCenter
®
HS21 - 8853 . 345
Chapter 30. BladeCenter
®
HS40 . . . . . . . 349
Chapter 31. BladeCenter
®
JS20 . . . . . . . 353
Chapter 32. BladeCenter
®
JS21 . . . . . . . 357
Chapter 33. BladeCenter
®
LS20 . . . . . . . 361
Chapter 34. Blade server storage and I/O
expansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Chapter 35. VMware offerings . . . . . . . . 371
Chapter 36. xSeries network operating
system offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Chapter 37. IBM and third party software
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Chapter 38. EXP400 storage expansion unit
409
Chapter 39. EXP420 storage expansion unit
411