Bull Escala EL260B, Installation And User Manual

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Chapter 1. Product overview
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Chapter 1. Product overview
The Bull Escala Blade EL260B blade server is based on POWER™ Architecture
technologies. The Bull Escala Blade EL260B blade server runs in the Bull Blade Chassis unit
to provide a high-density, high-performance blade server environment using advanced
processing technology.
The Installation and User’s Guide provides information about:
• Setting up the blade server
• Starting and configuring the blade server
•
Installing optional hardware devices
•
A reference to more information about installing supported operating systems
• Performing basic troubleshooting of the blade server
The blade server comes with a limited warranty. For information about the terms of the
warranty and getting service and assistance, see the Bull Hardware Product Warranty
document that is on the Blade Resource DVD .
The blade server might have features that are not described in the documentation that
comes with the blade server, and the documentation might be updated occasionally to
include information about those features, or technical updates might be available to
provide additional information that is not included in the original blade server
documentation. To check for uTo determine the values for your Escala EL260B blade server, use the management module
and the lsvpd command. If you are running Linux®, download and install the service and
productivity tools for Linux on POWER systems to install the lsvpd command.
Record information about the blade server in the following table.
Vital product data field Vital product data How to find this data
Product name
Type model number Chassis management
module HW VPD
Serial number Chassis management
(7 characters) module HW VPD
System unique ID lsvpd | grep SU
(12 characters) command
World Wide port number lsvpd | grep WN
(12 characters) command
Brand lsvpd | grep BR
B0 (B followed by 0) command
Table 1-1. Escala EL260B blade server vital product data