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Chapter 3. Installing Options
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If you reinstall a blade server that you removed, you must install it in the same blade bay
from which you removed it. Some blade server configuration information and update
options are established according to bay number. Reinstalling a blade server into a
different blade bay from the one from which it was removed can have unintended
consequences, and you might have to reconfigure the blade server.
If this is the initial installation for the blade server in the Blade Chassis, you must configure
the blade server through the Configuration/Setup Utility program and install the blade
server operating system. See
Updating the blade server configuration on page 37 and
Chapter 5, “ Installing the operating system ,” on page 47 for details.
3.15.4 Updating the blade server configuration
When the blade server starts for the first time after you add or remove an internal option,
you might receive a message that the configuration has changed. The Configuration/Setup
Utility program automatically starts so that you can save the new configuration settings. See
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program on page 39 for more information about the
Configuration/Setup Utility program.
Some options have device drivers that you must install. See the documentation that comes
with each option for information about installing device drivers.
The blade server operates as a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server, regardless of how
many microprocessors are installed. For optimum performance, you must upgrade the
operating system to support SMP. See
Chapter 5, Installing the operating system , on page
47 for details. and your operating-system documentation for additional information.
3.15.5 Input / output connectors and devices
The input/output connectors that are available to the blade server are supplied by the
Blade Chassis. See the documentation that comes with the Blade Chassis for information
about the input/output connectors.
The blade server has two selection buttons on the control panel: the media tray select
button and the keyboard/video/mouse select button. See
Blade server controls and LEDs
on page 10 for information about these buttons and their functions.
The Ethernet controllers on the blade server communicate with the network through the
Ethernet-compatible I/O modules on the Blade Chassis. Network signals to and from the
blade server or any expansion cards are automatically routed to a same-network-interface
I/O module through circuitry in the Blade Chassis.