McDATA 8832 User Manual
Bladecenter, Deployment guide part 3 - blades
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IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide
IBM
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BladeCenter
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Deployment Guide
Part 3 - Blades
Chris Gillen, IBM
Sam Litenatsky, IBM
Kevin Conover, IBM
Version 3.0, 3/10/2006
http://w3-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100564
The BladeCenter Deployment Guide is intended as a personal productivity tool. It is not intended to be comprehensive and is provided for
guidance only, on an 'as is basis' without warranty of any kind. Please be aware that its contents have not been certified by IBM.
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 BladeCenter Subsystems
- 1.3 Notes
- 2 Preparatory Steps
- 3 Configuring the Blades for Remote Boot
- 4 Installation Process for Red Hat Linux
- 4.1 Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1/3.0 Installation
- 4.2 Kickstart Information
- 4.3 Multipath Red Hat Installation
- 4.4 Red Hat Linux AS Broadcom driver installation
- 4.5 Issues related to Red Hat AS 2.1/3.0 and blades
- 4.6 Other Linux Distributions and Blades
- 4.7 RDAC Installation and Configuration
- 4.8 Serial Over LAN (SOL) for Blades
- 4.9 Netdump
- 5 Install Process for Windows 2000 and 2003 Remote Boot
- 6 Remote Update of the Firmware on an HS20 or HS40
- 7 Flash the QLogic HBA BIOS
- 8 Red Hat Boot Diskette Modification Process
- Firmware Versions