IBM HS12 - BladeCenter - 8028, Installation And User Manual

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If you reinstall a blade server that you removed, you must install it in the same
blade server bay from which you removed it. Some blade server configuration
information and update options are established according to blade server bay
number. Reinstalling a blade server into a different blade server bay number 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 of the blade server in the BladeCenter unit, 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” and Chapter 5, “Installing the operating system,” on page 45 for
details. If you have changed the configuration of the blade server or if you are
installing a different blade server from the one that you removed, you must
configure the blade server through the Configuration/Setup Utility, and you might
have to install the blade server operating system. For more information, see “Using
the Configuration/Setup Utility program” on page 35.
Updating the blade server configuration
Use this information to update the blade server configuration.
When the blade server starts for the first time after you add or remove an internal
device, 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 35 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 device 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 45 and your operating-system documentation for
additional information.
Input/output connectors and devices
Use this information to locate the input/output connectors and devices.
See the documentation that comes with the BladeCenter unit for information about
the input/output connectors.
The input/output connectors that are available to the blade server are supplied by
the BladeCenter unit. 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 11 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 in the BladeCenter unit. 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
BladeCenter unit.
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