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Chapter 4. Planning considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4.1 Network planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.1.1 Minimal network requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.1.2 High-performance, low-latency network requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.1.3 Multiple BladeCenter environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.2 Operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.2.1 Network installation planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.3 Systems management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.3.1 IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.3.2 IBM Cluster Systems Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Part 2. Implementing the BladeCenter JS20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 5. Hardware setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 5.1 Management Module configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 5.2 LAN Switch I/O Module configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.3 Blade server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.3.1 Assigning names to blade servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.3.2 Setting the boot sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.4 Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 5.4.1 Management Module firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 5.4.2 LAN Switch I/O Module firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 5.4.3 BladeCenter JS20 firmware (BIOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5.4.4 Integrated Systems Management Processor firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5.5 Providing a console for the JS20 blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.5.1 Configuring Serial over LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.5.2 Using Serial over LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 5.5.3 Open Firmware interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 5.5.4 Specifying IP parameters to Open Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Chapter 6. Installing Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6.1 Installing Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.1.1 Configuring the sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.1.2 The zImage.initrd file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 6.2 Configuring BOOTP and TFTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 6.2.1 BOOTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.2.2 Trivial File Transfer Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6.3 Preparing an unattended install. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6.3.1 Red Hat Kickstart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 6.3.2 SuSE AutoYaST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 6.4 Performing an unattended installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 6.4.1 Open Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.4.2 mkzimage_cmdline: SuSE only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6.5 Performing a network installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv The IBM Eserver BladeCenter JS20
6.5.1 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 6.5.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Chapter 7. Installing AIX on the JS20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 7.1 Minimal NIM installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 7.2 Adding resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 7.3 Adding machine information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 7.4 Preparing the NIM master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 7.5 Preparing the client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 8. System management scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 8.1 IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 8.1.1 Setting up an IBM Director Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 8.1.2 Installing an IBM Director Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 8.1.3 Using Director to manage JS20s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 8.2 IBM Cluster Systems Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 8.2.1 Setting up a CSM management node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 8.2.2 Installing and managing BladeCenter JS20s using CSM . . . . . . . . 154 Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 How to get IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Contents v
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Page 46 and 47: Expansion cards You can install any
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PowerPC 970 and PowerPC 970FX proce
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capabilities were usually referred
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For additional information about th
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The major features of the PowerPC 9
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the bus interface is slightly lower
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3.1 Operating system support 3.1.1
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3.2.2 IBM Director management, the
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4.1 Network planning Successful ins
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Hardware management subnet We recom
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Application subnet The primary reas
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4.2 Operating system installation T
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When you perform network installati
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IBM Director Agent for the BladeCen
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Network considerations and summary
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5.1 Management Module configuration
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PASSW0RD. The 0 in the password is
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When a new LAN Switch I/O Module is
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At this point, the LAN Switch I/O M
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5.3.2 Setting the boot sequence Set
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Figure 5-7 Viewing firmware levels
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4. After you download all the PKT f
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5.4.3 BladeCenter JS20 firmware (BI
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1. Download the firmware update pac
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LAN Switch Module in I/O Module Bay
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e. Leave the values for User Define
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connections. This is sufficient to
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minutes, you are disconnected. You
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6. As soon as you type 8, the Open
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5. Select the JS20 blade that you a
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6.1 Installing Linux Both Red Hat E
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SuSE sources SuSE installations are
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3. In the next panel as shown in Fi
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To build your own zImage.initrd, fo
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6.2.1 BOOTP DHCP is an extension to
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6.3.1 Red Hat Kickstart Red Hat pro
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6.3.2 SuSE AutoYaST SLES provides a
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► System Set the general system i
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The syntax for mkzimage_cmdline is
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7.1 Minimal NIM installation Follow
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4. In the next window (Figure 7-4),
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3. In the Configure NIM Environment
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7.3 Adding machine information With
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3. In the next window (Figure 7-12)
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7.4 Preparing the NIM master With a
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1. On the first panel, select the d
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4. As illustrated in Figure 7-19, w
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8.1 IBM Director IBM Director is a
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8.1.1 Setting up an IBM Director Se
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8. Enter the database connection in
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As CSM was being developed, the Ext
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This is the interface that will be
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version packaged with CSM. And you
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► PowerMethod: Should always be b
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The csmsetupyast command uses an XM
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RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux RISC
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Online resources ► CSM for Linux:
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How to get IBM Redbooks Help from I
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