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IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide
8. Type the location of the Ethernet device drivers that you extracted in step 6. Select OK.
9. When the message "System found a driver for device" is displayed, select Next to install the device
driver.
10. When you are prompted to restart the blade server, select Yes if you do not have more device drivers
to install, or select No if you have another device driver to install.
5.3 Broadcom Advanced Control Suite installation
Network interface card (NIC) teaming is one method for providing high availability and fault tolerance in
IBM Eserver servers. In this example, we use Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP) to implement
teaming functionality along with load balancing, fault tolerance, and VLAN tagging.
To enable NIC teaming, the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite application must be used on the HS20s.
The program is included with the drivers, which you can download at:
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43815.
To install the suite, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to the location where the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite application files were
extracted (default C:\Drivers\BcomXXX, where XXX is the code level). Execute Launch.exe.
2. Click MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS, and a window similar to the one in Figure 45 opens.
Figure 38 Broadcom Setup
3. Select Control Suite and BASP. Click Next to continue and click then Finish.
5.4 List of limitations
1. If there is a path failure and the host is generating I/O, the boot drive will move to the other path.
However, while this transition is occurring, the system will appear to freeze for up to 30 seconds.
2. You cannot enable the BIOS for both adapters at the same time. If you do and there is a path failure
on the primary adapter (and the adapter is still active), the system will trap with an
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error on reboot.
3. If the boot device, (LUN 0), is not on the same path as the bootable HBA port, you will receive an
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error message.
4. If you suffer major path problems (LIPs) or controller panics, it can hang the server indefinitely as
RDAC tries to find a stable path.
5. The IDE disk devices should not be re-enabled.
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