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CHAPTER 2
Planning and Preparation
Planning the Installation
Before starting the Endurance software installation you should consider
several major configuration related issues, which will effect the overall oper-
ation and capability of your FTvirtual Servers.
FTvirtual Server Boot Disk Options
The Endurance software allows the FTvirtual Server boot disk to be
installed on either a separate physical disk or as a Virtual disk. If your blade
configuration is limited to a single on-board physical disk you will need to
use a Virtual boot disk for the FTvirtual Server. A virtual boot disk allows
you to share a single physical disk as both the CoServer and the FTvirtual
Server Windows boot disk. Disk space is allocated to a file on the CoServer
disk. The content of the file is then formatted, partitioned, and used as the
FTvirtual Server boot disk.
This chapter describes BladeCenter features and options, key design con-
cepts, and basic configuration guidelines you should be aware of before
beginning to install and setup a BladeCenter FTvirtual Server.
