Chapter 3. Planning for deployment
Plan your BladeCenter S system network topology and determine which
deployment tools to use to deploy operating system software, firmware, and
drivers.
You can deploy your BladeCenter S system as an integrated solution for your
enterprise. Within a single BladeCenter S chassis, you can mix and match
applications and operating systems.
You can also get into more advanced management capabilities over the network.
For example, you can use a spare blade server and the redeployment capabilities of
IBM Director to implement a “blade server RAID” concept. IBM Director and
Remote Deployment Manager (RDM) can automatically image a spare blade server
to replace a failed blade server, increasing capacity to handle peak workloads,
within seconds.
Network topology
The typical network topology for an BladeCenter S system is a single chassis with
one or more blade servers. These servers communicate with devices on the external
network through an I/O module that is installed in the chassis. Management of the
blade servers is performed remotely through the advanced management module.
An Ethernet switch module in I/O module bay 1 of the BladeCenter S chassis can
connect all of the blade servers to the external network.
Note:
There are normally multiple linkages from the I/O module to the external
network.
If you install an Ethernet switch module in I/O module bay 2, remember that you
will also need to install an Ethernet expansion card option on each of the blade
servers that will access the Ethernet switch module.
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