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IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide
Module slots 3 and 4 are used for Fibre Channel or other switch types and connect to the Server
Blades as well as external devices.
• Power - Four modular power supplies provide primary and backup power to all BladeCenter
subsystems. Power supplies 1 and 2 are responsible for powering blade 1 through 6 plus all of the
BladeCenter components such as the switches, management modules, media tray, etc, and power
supplies 3 and 4 are responsible for power blades 7 through 14.
• Cooling - Dual, modular blowers provide forced-air cooling of BladeCenter components and
subsystems.
• Media Tray - Removable media subsystem that is shared by all blades. Includes CD/DVD and floppy
media.
Figure 1 BladeCenter Chassis – Rear View
1.3 Notes
This is currently a living document and will continue to grow as we have more experience with IBM Blades
in the boot-to-SAN environment. This document is intended as a personal productivity tool. It is not
intended to be comprehensive, and is provided for guidance only, on an 'as is basis' without warranty of
any kind. Please be aware that its contents have not been certified by IBM.
If you are installing Linux, please pay close attention to the issues listed in Section 4.5.
1.3.1 Contributors
We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following people:
1. Richard Gebhardt, IBM Lab Services – Appendix E Modify or Create the Post-install Driver
Diskette Image, portions of Section 4 Installation Process for Red Hat Linux.
2. Fred Rabert, Nortel Networks – Assistance with Section on Nortel switches plus BroadCom Driver
installation instructions.
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The BladeCenter Deployment Guide is intended as a personal productivity tool. It is not intended to be comprehensive and is provided for
guidance only, on an 'as is basis' without warranty of any kind. Please be aware that its contents have not been certified by IBM.
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