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70 lines
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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<meta name="dc.date" scheme="iso8601" content="2005-09-13" />
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<meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
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<title>Hardware concepts</title>
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<a name="rzahqwisco"></a>
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<h2 id="rzahqwisco">Hardware concepts</h2>
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<p><img src="delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />iSeries™ servers support several hardware configurations
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to integrate IBM® xSeries® or BladeCenter™ servers. The following table introduces the
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essential differences between an Integrated xSeries Server (IXS), an Integrated xSeries Adapter
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(IXA) attached xSeries server, and an iSCSI attached server.<img src="deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></p><img src="delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />
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<thead valign="bottom">
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<tr class="tablemainheaderbar">
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<th id="wq5" colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><span class="bold">Comparison
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of IXS, IXA and iSCSI HBA attached xSeries servers.</span></th>
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<img src="rzahq019.gif" alt="An IXS card is shown inside an iSeries." /></div></td>
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<td width="27%" headers="wq5"><span><img src="delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />An IXS is a diskless PC Server with processor
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and memory that is installed inside an iSeries server.<img src="deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></span></td>
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<img src="rzahq020.gif" alt="An IXA card is shown inside of an xSeries connected to an iSeries by a HSL cable." /></div></td>
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<td headers="wq5">An IXA is a high-speed link (HSL) bus adapter plugged
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into a supported xSeries server. The xSeries server appears as an HSL attached
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expansion unit to the iSeries server.</td>
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<img src="rzahq511.gif" alt="An iSCSI card is shown inside of an xSeries server connected to an iSeries by an Ethernet network." /></div></td>
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<td headers="wq5"><span>iSCSI technology attaches both diskless xSeries servers
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and IBM BladeCenter servers to iSeries systems using low cost, scalable Ethernet
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networks. There are iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) in the iSeries server, in
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each participating xSeries server, and on each participating IBM BladeCenter server.</span></td>
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