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Creating a blade address profile
You can create a blade address profile using IBM Director.
1.
From the IBM Director Console select: Tasks
→
BladeCenter Management
→
BladeCenter Configuration Manager
→
Open .
2. A Quick Start window will launch. Select Create a new profile .
a. On the Profile Parameters window, specify a type for the new profile in
the Select a type for the new profile field and a name for the new profile
in the Enter a name for the new profile field.
b. Click OK .
3. On the Select components window, click the box next to BladeCenter Open
Fabric Manager - Blade Address Configuration . Click OK .
4.
In the
Configuration Manager Editor
window, expand the hierarchy in the
right-hand pane to click BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager - Blade Address
Configuration .
5. On the Members page, select the BladeCenter chassis that will participate in
the domain by clicking on the chassis in the Available Chassis box. Click Add
to move the selected chassis to the Domain Members box. Chassis not listed
in the Available Chassis box can be added to the domain by clicking the IP
Address button and entering the IP address of the chassis. Click Next .
6. On the Enable page, select a chassis from the Domain Members box and click
the Disable / Enable button to disable or enable the blade address
configuration for the selected chassis. Click Next .
7.
On the
Address Pool
page, adjust the slider to represent the
Maximum
Chassis In Domain . The software will pre-allocate address space for the
maximum number of chassis chosen to ensure that there will be no address
duplications in any of the profiles.
8. To assign Ethernet MAC addresses to slots, click the Automatically Assign
Addresses check box next to the Ethernet MAC address type . Select IBM in
the Vendor dropdown list to allow the software to automatically assign
addresses. Selecting User Defined in the Vendor dropdown list will allow you
to edit the MAC address range to any range of your choosing.
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Some Ethernet expansion cards can have a range of MAC addresses per
port. The range is defined by specifying two MAC addresses per port: MAC
A and MAC B. For example, the JS22 and JS12 onboard HEA Ethernet
adapter must use the default values shown below. To set up a range of
MAC addresses for a port, click Advanced option , then click Generate
range of MAC addresses per port . You will then be able to define the
following values:
– List of ports to apply to (1-8 consecutive numbers) : The default value is
1.
– Range size: Enter a range size between 2 and 256. The default value is
16.
– Ethernet VLAN for the second MAC address: The default is 0.
Note: The above default values will allow the JS22/JS12 onboard HEA
Ethernet adapter to use virtual addresses. Even though the 16 MAC
range for the onboard HEA adapter is declared via port 1, the actual
routing of the 16 MACs is determined by configuration in the OS.
9.
To assign Fibre Channel WWN addresses to slots, click the Automatically
Assign Addresses check box next to the Fibre Channel (FC) section. For
Vendor select either Qlogic or Emulex , depending on the type of fibre channel
cards in your environment, to allow the software to automatically assign
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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager Installation and User's Guide