IBM BladeCanter HS20, Installation And User Manual

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Some options have device drivers that you need to install. See the documentation
that comes with your option for information about installing any required device
drivers.
Your blade server comes with one or two microprocessors installed on the system
board. If your blade server comes with two microprocessors, or your blade server
comes with one microprocessor and you have installed an additional
microprocessor, your blade server can now operate as an SMP server. Therefore,
you might need to upgrade your operating system to support SMP. See Chapter 5,
“Installing the operating system”, on page 53 and your operating-system
documentation for additional information.
Input/output connectors and devices
The input/output connectors available to your blade server are supplied by the
BladeCenter unit. See the documentation that comes with your BladeCenter unit for
information about the input/output connectors.
The blade server has two selection buttons on the control panel: the
CD/diskette/USB select button and the keyboard/mouse/video select button. See
“Blade server controls and LEDs” on page 15 for information about these buttons
and their function.
The Ethernet controllers on your blade server communicate with the network
through the Ethernet-compatible switch modules on the BladeCenter unit. Network
signals to and from the blade server or any I/O expansion cards are automatically
routed to a same-network-interface switch module through circuitry in the
BladeCenter unit.
Chapter 3. Installing options
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