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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. 

 

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. 

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. 

Version 3.0, 3/10/2006  

  

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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.