Software concepts

i5/OS™ provides support for defining, configuring and managing integrated servers, regardless of the type of integrated server hardware. See the following diagrams for a description of the i5/OS objects that are used for the various hardware configurations. See Hardware concepts for a description of the hardware configurations that are supported.

For information about the i5/OS software configuration, see the following information.

• Integrated xSeries Server (IXS) and Integrated xSeries Adapter (IXA) attached xSeries servers
• iSCSI attached xSeries and IBM BladeCenter servers
• iSCSI attached xSeries and BladeCenter servers with security