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Preface
This book is intended for anyone who plans for the physical installation and
configuration of an IBM
®
ERserver
BladeCenter
™
unit. This book is organized as
follows and should be used for these tasks:
v Use Chapter 1, “Introducing the BladeCenter unit,” on page 1 to understand the
overall purpose and usage of BladeCenter units and blade servers.
v
Use Chapter 2, “BladeCenter unit components,” on page 9 to learn about the
physical components that make up a BladeCenter unit.
v Use Chapter 3, “Deployment considerations,” on page 21 to learn about network
topology considerations and deployment considerations.
v
Use Chapter 4, “Installation considerations,” on page 41 and Appendix A,
“Planning worksheets,” on page 85 to plan for the physical environment for
installing BladeCenter units. This includes, space, power, cooling and cabling.
The worksheets provide the basis for selecting the features and options for each
blade server, where the blade server is installed in a BladeCenter unit and a rack
location for each BladeCenter unit.
v
Use Chapter 5, “Configuration considerations,” on page 73 and Appendix B,
“Configuration Worksheets,” on page 95 to plan for the configuration of the:
– management module
– Ethernet switch modules
– Fibre channel switch modules
– Blade servers.
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