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Windows environment on iSeries

What's new for V5R4

Integrated server overview

Hardware concepts

IXS and IXA attached servers

iSCSI attached servers

iSCSI attached server overview

Basic single server support

Multiple server support

Advanced iSCSI support

Diskless booting over iSCSI

Windows console

iSeries storage spaces versus dedicated disks

Storage space balancing

iSCSI attached server performance

Virtual Ethernet

Networking concepts

Service processor connection

Point to point virtual Ethernet

Virtual Ethernet networks

External networks

Software concepts

Integrated xSeries Server (IXS) and Integrated xSeries Adapter (IXA) attached xSeries servers

Network server description

Hardware resource name

Network server storage spaces

Virtual Ethernet line descriptions

TCP/IP interfaces

System bus and HSL data flows

iSCSI attached xSeries and IBM BladeCenter servers

Network server host adapters

Remote system configuration

Service processor configuration

Network server description

Network server storage spaces

iSCSI attached xSeries and BladeCenter servers with security

Remote system configuration

Service processor configuration

Connection security configuration

Certificate stores

High availability concepts

Security concepts

Security for IXSs and IXA attached systems

Security for iSCSI attached systems

User and group concepts

Types of user configurations

User enrollment templates

Password considerations

Install and configure Windows environment on iSeries

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

Prepare for the installation of integrated Windows servers

Machine pool size requirements

Time synchronization

Configure i5/OS TCP/IP for integrated Windows servers

iSeries Access for Windows on integrated Windows servers

Enable iSeries NetServer

Create a guest user profile for iSeries NetServer

Install IBM i5/OS Integrated Server Support

Plan for the installation of Windows server

Plan for iSCSI hardware installation

Plan the boot mode for your hosted system

Create a service processor configuration and a remote system configuration

Plan your service processor connection

Configure the service processor discovery method on your iSeries server

Network server descriptions

Installation worksheet for i5/OS parameters

Comparison of FAT, FAT32, and NTFS file systems

Tip: Find resource names when you have multiple integrated servers

Supported language versions

Install Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003

Prepare iSCSI hardware for Windows installation

Initialize service processor security

Create and start a network server host adapter

Start the installation from the i5/OS console

Continue the installation from the integrated Windows server console

Complete the server installation

Upgrade the IBM iSeries Integration for Windows Server licensed program

Upgrade the integrated server side of IBM i5/OS Integrated Server Support

Migrate from 285x or 661x to 2890 Integrated xSeries Server hardware

Migrate to iSCSI attached servers

Windows Cluster Service

Install Windows Cluster service

Install Windows Cluster service on a new integrated Windows server

Install Windows Cluster service on an existing server

Prepare Windows before installing Windows Cluster service

Install Windows Cluster service on Windows

Install Windows Cluster service on Windows 2000 Server

Install Windows Cluster service on Windows Server 2003

Enabling Kerberos with a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Server

Install the ATI Radeon 7000M video device drivers for Windows 2000 on the 2892-002 or 4812-001 Integrated xSeries Server

Adjust hardware acceleration for Windows Server 2003 on the 2892-002 or 4812-001 Integrated xSeries Server

Respond to error messages during installation

Set an integrated Windows server to automatically vary on with TCP/IP

Types of code fixes

Synchronize the integration software level using the integrated Windows server console

Synchronize the integration software level using iSeries Navigator

Synchronize the integration software level using a remote command

Manage virtual Ethernet and external networks

Configure IP address, gateway and MTU values

Configure virtual Ethernet networks

Configure inter-partition virtual Ethernet networks

Explore point to point virtual Ethernet networks

External networks

Install network adapter device drivers and add adapter address information to an integrated Windows server

Remove network adapters

Administer connections to iSCSI attached servers

Work with iSCSI configuration objects

Manage network server host adapters

Create a network server host adapter object

Create a network server host adapter object based on another one

Display network server host adapter properties

Change network server host adapter properties

Start a network server host adapter

Stop a network server host adapter

Delete a network server host adapter

Manage remote system network server configurations

Create a remote system configuration object

Create a remote system configuration object based on another one

Display remote system configuration properties

Change remote system configuration properties

Display remote system status

Delete a remote system configuration object

Manage service processor network server configurations

Create a service processor configuration object

Create a service processor configuration object based on another one

Display service processor configuration properties

Change service processor configuration properties

Initialize a service processor

Delete a service processor configuration object

Manage connection security network server configurations

Create a connection security configuration object

Create a connection security configuration object based on another one

Display connection security configuration properties

Change connection security configuration properties

Delete a connection security object

Configure security between i5/OS and hosted systems

Configure IPSec

Configure service processor SSL

Automatic SSL initialization

Manual SSL initialization

Service processor password

Configure a firewall

Manage iSCSI host bus adapters

Hot spare between iSCSI local host adapters

Manage iSCSI HBA usage

Share an iSCSI HBA among multiple hosted servers

Spreading workload over multiple iSCSI HBAs

Using multiple iSCSI HBAs for redundancy

Manage iSCSI HBA allocation at the Windows side of the iSCSI network

Maximum transmission unit (MTU) considerations

Configuring virtual Ethernet for maximum performance on iSCSI networks that support frames larger than 1500 bytes

Configuring virtual Ethernet for iSCSI networks that have a maximum frame size that is less than 1500 bytes

Configuring virtual Ethernet to support unusual non-TCP applications that do not negotiate MTU

Integrated DHCP server

Remote server discovery and management

Install and configure IBM Director

Remote server and service processor discovery

Service processor discovery configuration

Dynamic IP addressing (DHCP)

Service processor discovery methods

Service Location Protocol (SLP) using multicast addressing

Discovery by IP address

Discovery by host name

Use the Management Module or RSA II web interface

Administer integrated Windows servers

Start and stop an integrated server

Start and stop an integrated Windows server using iSeries Navigator

Start and stop an integrated Windows server using the character-based interface

Shutdown an integrated server from the Windows server console

How to safely shutdown your iSeries when integrated Windows servers are present

Connect to the 4812 IXS virtual serial console

View or change integrated Windows server configuration information

Message logging

Run integrated Windows server commands remotely

Guidelines for submitting remote commands

SBMNWSCMD and file level backup support for Kerberos v5 and EIM

Hot spare between server hardware

i5/OS storage management

Disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Administer integrated Windows server disk drives from i5/OS

Access the i5/OS integrated file system from an integrated server

Obtain information about integrated server disk drives

Add disk drives to integrated Windows servers

Create an integrated server disk drive

Link a disk drive to an integrated server

Format integrated server disk drives

Copy a disk drive

Expand a disk drive

Expand a system drive

Unlink integrated Windows server disk drives

Delete integrated Windows server disk drives

Use Windows disk management programs with integrated Windows servers

Determine the device description and hardware resource names for iSeries devices

Use iSeries optical drives with integrated Windows servers

Use iSeries tape drives with integrated Windows servers

Install tape device drivers

Format a tape on i5/OS for use with integrated Windows servers

Allocate the iSeries tape drive to an integrated Windows server

Return control of a tape drive from an integrated Windows server to the iSeries

Supported iSeries tape drives

Identify iSeries tape devices for applications

Transfer control of the iSeries tape and optical drives between integrated Windows servers

Print from an integrated Windows server to iSeries printers

Administer integrated Windows server users from i5/OS

Enroll a single i5/OS user to the Windows environment using iSeries Navigator

Enroll an i5/OS group to the Windows environment using iSeries Navigator

Enroll i5/OS users to the Windows environment using the character-based interface

Create user templates

Specify a home directory in a template

Changing the LCLPWDMGT user profile attribute

Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM)

End user enrollment to the Windows environment

End group enrollment to the Windows environment

The QAS400NT user

Preventing enrollment and propagation to an integrated Windows server

Back up and recover integrated Windows servers

Back up the NWSD and other objects associated with an integrated Windows server

Back up the NWSD of an integrated Windows server

Back up the NWSH of an iSCSI attached integrated Windows server

Back up iSCSI NWSCFGs and validation lists

Back up predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Back up user-defined disk drives for an integrated Windows server

Save and restore user enrollment information

What objects to save and their location on i5/OS

Back up individual integrated Windows server files and directories

File-level backup restrictions

Preliminary administrator setup tasks

Create shares on integrated Windows servers

Add members to QAZLCSAVL file

Ensure iSeries NetServer and the integrated Windows server are in same domain

Save your files

Examples: How to address parts of an integrated Windows server

Windows Backup utility

Restore an integrated Windows server's NWSD and disk drives

Restore predefined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Restore user-defined disk drives for integrated Windows servers

Restore integrated Windows server NWSDs

Restore integrated Windows server NWSHs for iSCSI attached servers

Restore integrated Windows server NWSCFGs for iSCSI attached servers

Recover integrated Windows server files

Uninstall the Windows server operating system from the integrated server hardware

Delete an integrated Windows server's NWSD

Delete an integrated Windows server's line descriptions

Delete TCP/IP interfaces associated with an integrated Windows server

Delete controller descriptions associated with an integrated Windows server

Delete device descriptions associated with an integrated Windows server

Delete network server configurations associated with an iSCSI integrated Windows server

Delete the IBM i5/OS Integrated Server Support, i5/OS option 29 (5722–SS1)

Troubleshoot integrated Windows servers

Check message and job logs

Additional logs and messages for iSCSI attached servers

Problems with integrated Windows servers

STOP or blue screen errors

A full integrated server system drive

Optical device problems

Locked optical device for a failed server

Verify that the tape drive device driver is loaded

Problems starting an integrated Windows server

Problems hot sparing between servers

Problems sharing hosted system hardware

Multiple NWSDs defined to use the same hosted system hardware

Special considerations for iSCSI attached systems

NWSD configuration file errors

Repair the NWSD configuration file

Reset the NWSD configuration file parameter

Use a previous version of the integrated server file

DASD in IXA or iSCSI attached servers

Failures enrolling users and groups

User enrollment authorization problems

Password problems

IBM iSeries Integrated Server Support snap-in program

Problems with iSCSI attached servers

Boot and storage path network analysis

Managing path certificates

IBM Director Troubleshooting

Discovery problems

Problems with SSL connections

Virtual Ethernet problems with iSCSI attached servers

Virtual Ethernet problems with IXS and IXA attached servers

Both line description and icon are present

Line description is present and icon is missing

Line description is missing and icon is present

Both line description and icon are missing

Problems with external networks

Manually update LAN drivers on the integrated Windows server

Begin the LAN driver installation or update

Select the adapter to install or update

Complete the LAN driver installation or update

Point to point virtual Ethernet IP address conflicts

Assign point to point virtual Ethernet IP addresses

Problems with TCP/IP over virtual Ethernet

Problems accessing Windows Server 2003 shares using the QNTC file system

IFS access problems

Problems with saving integrated Windows server files

Unreadable messages in the server message queue

Problems getting a Windows system memory dump

Reinstall an integrated Windows server

Collect integrated Windows server service data

Create an integrated Windows server memory dump on i5/OS

Use the network server description (NWSD) dump tool on i5/OS

Network server description configuration files

NWSD configuration file format

Create an NWSD configuration file

Example: NWSD configuration file

Remove lines from an existing integrated server file with CLEARCONFIG entry type

TARGETDIR keyword

TARGETFILE keyword

Change an integrated server file with ADDCONFIG entry type

ADDWHEN keyword

ADDWHEN and DELETEWHEN expression operators

DELETEWHEN keyword

LINECOMMENT keyword

LOCATION keyword

LINESEARCHPOS keyword

LINESEARCHSTR keyword

LINELOCATION keyword

FILESEARCHPOS keyword (ADDCONFIG entry type)

FILESEARCHSTR keyword

FILESEARCHSTROCC keyword

REPLACEOCC keyword

TARGETDIR keyword

TARGETFILE keyword

VARVALUE keyword

Change an integrated Windows server file with UPDATECONFIG entry type

FILESEARCHPOS keyword (UPDATECONFIG entry type)

FILESEARCHSTR keyword (UPDATECONFIG entry type)

FILESEARCHSTROCC keyword (UPDATECONFIG entry type)

Set configuration defaults with the SETDEFAULTS entry type

FILESEARCHPOS keyword (SETDEFAULTS entry type)

FILESEARCHSTR keyword (SETDEFAULTS entry type)

Use substitution variables for keyword values

Related information

Appendix. Notices

Terms and conditions