Configuring A Raid Array; Updating Ibm Director - IBM power PS700 Problem Determination And Service Manual

Table 38. MAC addressing scheme for physical and logical host Ethernet adapters (continued)
Node
Logical HEA port
For more information about planning, deploying, and managing the use of host Ethernet adapters, see the
Configuring section of the PowerVM Information Roadmap.

Configuring a RAID array

Configuring a RAID array applies to a blade server in which two SAS hard disk drives are installed.
Two SAS disk drives in the PS700 blade server can be used to implement and manage RAID level-0 and
RAID level-1 arrays in operating systems that are on the ServerProven list. For the blade server, you must
configure the RAID array through "smit sasdam," which is the SAS RAID Disk Array Manager for AIX.
The AIX Disk Array Manager is packaged with the Diagnostics utilities on the Diagnostics CD. Use "smit
sasdam" to configure the disk drives for use with the SAS controller. For more information, see "Using
the Disk Array Manager" in the Systems Hardware Information Center at http://
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/arebj/
sasusingthesasdiskarraymanager.htm.
Important: Depending on your RAID configuration, you might have to create the array before you install
the operating system in the blade server.
Before you can create a RAID array, you must reformat the drives so that the sector size of the drives
changes from 512 bytes to 528 bytes. If you later decide to remove the drives, delete the RAID array
before you remove the drives. If you decide to delete the RAID array and reuse the drives, you must
reformat the drives so that the sector size of the drives changes from 528 bytes to 512 bytes.

Updating IBM Director

If you plan to use IBM Director to manage the blade server, you must check for the latest applicable IBM
Director updates and interim fixes.
To install the IBM Director updates and any other applicable updates and interim fixes, complete the
following steps.
Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. The actual procedure might vary slightly from
what is described in this procedure.
1. Check for the latest version of IBM Director:
a. Go to the IBM Director download site at http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/
downloads.html.
b. If the drop-down list shows a newer version of IBM Director than the version that comes with the
blade server, follow the instructions on the Web page to download the latest version.
2. Install IBM Director.
3. Download and install any applicable updates or interim fixes for the blade server:
a. Go to the IBM Support site at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
b. Under Product support, click BladeCenter.
c. Under Popular links, click Software and device drivers.
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Name in management
module
Relation to the MAC that
is listed on the PS700 label
MAC +17
Same as last MAC address
on the label
Example
00:1A:64:44:0ec8 to
00:1A:64:44:0ed4