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IBM eServer Configuration and Options Guide HTML
The Configuration and Options Guide (COG) is now available in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The Configuration and Options Guide contains general configuration information about IBM® products and supported options, such as, IBM System x™; BladeCenter®; eServer xSeries®; IntelliStation®; Datacenter and other servers.
You can still download the COG as a Portable Document Format (PDF).
 
IBM BladeCenter and System x Reference Documents (xREF)
The IBM BladeCenter and System x Reference documents are created by the IBM Systems Group Field Sales Skills Enablement Team for use by IBM sales professionals and business partners. The xREF provides a brief technical overview of each IBM BladeCenter, System x and IntelliStation machine type in production or withdrawn from marketing and many system specific options. The xREF is intended as a supplement, not a replacement, to the various Configuration tools provided by IBM.
Interoperability Guide — IBM BladeCenter
The BladeCenter Interoperability Guide is a quick reference tool that outlines interoperability of BladeCenter components, including blade servers, chassis, expansion units, networking and storage devices; as well as a set of configuration diagrams, to assist you in BladeCenter configuration efforts.
Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool (SSCT)
A software application with technical guidelines incorporated in its database developed to aid IBM sales and business partners and facilitate technical collaborations in configuring eServer systems and rack cabinets. The application is designed to support an interactive interface with graphics for determining the price, ideal environment, available rack cabinet space and available resources along with other operations associated with ordering and configuring a whole solution. The application is also capable of saving or exporting data in several different formats.
IBM Sizing Guides
IBM Sizing Guides provide sizing recommendations for IBM Systems running workloads representing a customer environment. A variety of tailorable workloads are available to choose from, as well as allowing measurement input that reflects your current workloads.
It will recommend the system model including processor, memory, and DASD requirements that is necessary to handle the overall workload with reasonable performance expectations. To use the sizing guides select desired workloads and answer a few questions related to the business workload requirements. Based on the answers, the Estimator generates a recommendation and shows the predicted CPU utilization of the recommended system in graphical format. The final results can be printed or generated in Portable Document Format (PDF). Multiple operating systems, partitions, systems and tiers are supported.
IBM BladeCenter and System x Power Configurator
Energy costs are top of mind in IT today. In fact, it is estimated that each year companies pay a significant part of the purchase price of a system on powering, cooling and housing that system. Discover the energy savings IBM System x™ and BladeCenter® servers can bring to your business. Take the power challenge using the IBM Power Configurator today.
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