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Figure 23 Verify Disk Media
Once the HBA configuration steps are completed, during the POST sequence you will notice the following
text which indicates that the blade is now booting from the LUN 0 associated to the Fibre Channel
Daughter Card.
Figure 24 Blade POST with HBA configured
3.3 Ethernet Port Numbering
In most cases, for Windows 2000/2003, the connection named Local Area Connection goes to the
Ethernet switch in switch bay 1, and the connection named Local Area Connection 2 goes to the Ethernet
switch in switch bay 2. We use the phrase most cases, because this is not always the case. For Windows
2000, the order of the Local Area Connection names assigned is based on the order in which the drivers
for each NIC are installed. The drivers necessary to support the NICs on a blade server are not part of a
standard Windows 2000/2003 install, and the NICs will be generically listed in Windows 2000 Device
Manager as two or more Ethernet Controllers until the necessary drivers are loaded. For these NICs to
become active, a third-party driver, supplied by IBM, needs to be installed. The normal procedure most
users follow is to install the drivers on the first Ethernet Controller in the list, and then install the drivers on
the second Ethernet Controller in the list (and so on). The end result of this is the most-cases scenario
previously mentioned, where the Windows 2000/2003 connection named Local Area Connection goes to
switch 1 and the one named Local Area Connection 2 goes to switch 2.
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