IBM System Cluster 1350, Installation And Service

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Part 2. Installation
Chapter 2. Unpacking the eServer Cluster 1350 13
Chapter 3. Placing the cabinets . . . . . . . 15
Customer responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installer responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cabinet placement . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 4. Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Overview of Cluster 1350 cabling . . . . . . . 17
VLAN options . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Attaching the cables . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1-GB Ethernet cabling . . . . . . . . . . . 24
High-speed (Myrinet) switch cabling . . . . . . 25
10/100/1000 Ethernet cabling . . . . . . . . 26
Fibre Channel cabling . . . . . . . . . . . 27
KVM cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Remote Console Manager (RCM) cabling . . . . 29
Replacing a defective cable in a harness . . . . . 29
Chapter 5. Power up the cluster . . . . . . . 31
Initial Cluster 1350 power-on procedure . . . . . 31
Checking connections in the Expansion cabinets 31
Checking connections in the Primary cabinet . . 31
Power-on the Expansion cabinets . . . . . . 32
Power-on the Primary cabinet . . . . . . . 32
Lights out or brown out . . . . . . . . . . 33
Related topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 6. Software installation . . . . . . . 35
Software Version Matrix . . . . . . . . . . 35
Download link for drivers and firmware . . . 36
Install a supported distribution of Linux. . . . . 36
Installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 8 . . . . . . 37
Update the Management Node device drivers 38
Update the configuration files .
. . . . . 39
Installing SuSE Linux 8 or 8.1 . . . . . . . 39
Update the configuration files . . . . . . 41
Installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 7
or 8 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Update the configuration files . . . . . . 43
Install Cluster Systems Management (CSM) . . . 44
Pre-installation tasks . . . . . . . . . . 44
Converting xcat tab file for use with CSM . . 45
Installing CSM on the Management Node . . . 46
Configure the Storage nodes. . . . . . . . . 46
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installation procedure . . . . . . . . . 47
Copy the system image out to all nodes in the
cluster .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Test the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 7. Cluster management . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 8. Remote access . . . . . . . . . 53
Remote power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Remote console . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 9. Cluster power down . . . . . . . 55
Power down the system . . . . . . . . . . 55
Lights out or brown out . . . . . . . . . . 55
Related topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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