Planning and Preparation
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Mapping the Switchbays
After installation of the Windows operating system on a blade you can fill-in
the switchbay mapping table for your particular configuration using the fol-
lowing procedure.
Note: Do not perform PCI-to-Switchbay mappings when blades
within the chassis are operating within a production
environment.
1.
On one of the CoServer blades right-click
My Network Places
to view
the
Network Connections
dialog.
2.
From the back of the BladeCenter cabinet select a switchbay and unplug
it.
3.
Return to the CoServer console and observe the
Network Connections
dialog and note which connection experiences a status change.
4.
Right-click on the connection that changed status to display the
Local
Area Connection Properties.
5.
Click the
Configure
button to display the controller properties. Note the
switchbay number of the switch you unpluged and record the corre-
sponding PCI location information for that adapter in Table 4. Plug the
switchbay back into its slot and wait for the connection status to return to
normal.
6.
Repeat this procedure for each configured ethernet switchbay until you
have identified all connections. Since these connections will hold for like
blade models this mapping will work for all other configured blades.
TABLE 5.
Adapter PCI-to-Switchbay Mappings
Blade Model
Switchbay 1
Switchbay 2
Switchbay 3
Switchbay 4
Blade HS20
8832 Chassis
1:0:0 (b:d:f)
1:0:1 (b:d:f)
2:2:1 (b:d:f)
2:2:0 (b:d:f)
Blade HS20
8843 Chassis
5:1:0
5:1:1
6:1:0
6:1:1
Blade HSXX
88nn Chassis
