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Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
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򐂰 The Ethernet switch module must be set up correctly.
For details about setting up SOL, see the BladeCenter Serial Over LAN Setup Guide, which
can be found at the following web page:
http://ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-54666
This guide contains an example of how to establish a Telnet or SSH connection to the
management module and then an SOL console.
2.8.2 Anchor card
The anchor card contains the Smart VPD chip that stores system-specific information. The
same anchor card is used for both the single-wide base blade and for the double-wide SMP
blade. The pluggable anchor card provides a means for the system-specific information to be
transferable from a faulty system planar to the replacement planar.
Before the service processor knows what system it resides on, it reads the SmartChip VPD to
obtain system information. There is only one anchor card for the PS703 and the PS704, as
shown in Figure 2-22. The PS704 base planar holds the anchor card; the SMP planar does
not have an anchor card.
Figure 2-22 Anchor card location
Note: The AMM has an option called management channel auto-discovery (MCAD) which
allows certain blades to dynamically change the path for the management network within
the chassis in order to use any IO module slot. The JS20, JS21, JS12, JS22, JS23, JS43,
PS700, PS701, PS702, PS703, and PS704 do not support the use of MCAD. You must
have a switch in IO module bay 1.
For more information about MCAD see the InfoCenter site at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/bladectr/documentation/index.jsp?topic
=/com.ibm.bladecenter.advmgtmod.doc/kp1bb_bc_mmug_usemcad.html
Anchor card