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򐂰 Administration

򐂰 Network management (Network Control)

򐂰 Storage management (Storage Control)

򐂰 Virtual machine lifecycle management (VMControl Express)

IBM Flex System Manager advanced feature set offers all capabilities of the base feature set

plus:

򐂰 Image management (VMControl Standard)

򐂰 Pool management (VMControl Enterprise)

IBM Fabric Manager offers the following features:

򐂰 Manage assignments of Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses

򐂰 Monitor the health of compute nodes, and automatically replace a failed compute node

from a designated pool of spare compute nodes

򐂰 Preassign MAC and WWN addresses, as well as storage boot targets, for up to 256

chassis or 3584 compute nodes.

򐂰 Using an enhanced GUI, you can perform these tasks:

– Create addresses for compute nodes

– Save the address profiles

– Deploy the addresses to slots in the same chassis, or in up to 256 different chassis

3.5.1 Hardware overview

Fundamentally, the FSM from a hardware point of view is a locked-down compute node with a

specific hardware configuration. This configuration is designed for optimal performance of the

preinstalled software stack. The FSM looks similar to the Intel-based x240. However, there

are slight differences between the system board designs, so these two hardware nodes are

not interchangeable. Figure 3-5 shows a front view of the FSM.

Figure 3-5 IBM Flex System Manager

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Figure 3-6 shows the internal layout and major components of the FSM.

Figure 3-6 Exploded view of the IBM Flex System Manager node, showing major components

Additionally, the FSM comes preconfigured with the components described in Table 3-5.

Table 3-5 Features of the IBM Flex System Manager node (8731)

Feature Description

Processor 1x Intel Xeon Processor E5-2650 8C 2.0 GHz 20 MB Cache 1600 MHz 95 W

Memory 8 x 4 GB (1x4 GB, 1Rx4, 1.35 V) PC3L-10600 CL9 ECC DDR3 1333 MHz LP

RDIMM

SAS Controller One LSI 2004 SAS Controller

Disk 1 x IBM 1TB 7.2K 6 Gbps NL SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD

2 x IBM 200GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD (configured in an RAID-1)

Integrated NIC Embedded dual-port 10 Gb Virtual Fabric Ethernet controller (Emulex BE3)

Dual-port 1 GbE Ethernet controller on a management adapter (Broadcom 5718)

Systems

Management

Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)

Management network adapter

Cover

Heat sink

Microprocessor

heat sink filler

I/O expansion

adapter

ETE

adapter

Air baffles

DIMM

DIMM

filler

Storage

drive filler

Hot-swap

storage drive

Hot-swap

storage

cage

Microprocessor

SSD and HDD

backplane

SSD mounting

insert

SSD interposer

SSD

drives

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Figure 3-7 shows the internal layout of the FSM.

Figure 3-7 Internal view that shows the major components of IBM Flex System Manager

Front controls

The FSM has similar controls and LEDs as the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node. The

diagram in Figure 3-8 shows the front of an FSM with the location of the control and LEDs.

Figure 3-8 FSM front panel showing controls and LEDs

Storage

The FSM ships with 2 x IBM 200 GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD and 1 x IBM 1 TB 7.2K 6 Gbps NL

SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD drives. The 200 GB SSD drives are configured in an RAID-1 pair that

provides roughly 200 GB of usable space. The 1 TB SATA drive is not part of a RAID group.

Processor 1Filler slot for

Processor 2

Management network

adapter

Drive bays

USB connector

KVM connector

Power

button/LED

Identify

LED

Check log

LED

Fault

LED

Hard disk drive

activity LED

Hard disk drive

status LED

0

2

1

Solid state

drive LEDs