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Chapter 3. Deployment considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Network topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Preparing for BladeCenter T deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Cabling the Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Preparing for blade server deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 4. Installation considerations
Physical planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rack considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Power considerations for Type 8720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Power considerations for Type 8730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Cooling considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Power connections for Type 8720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Power connections for Type 8730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Integrated infrastructure
Single BladeCenter T chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Multiple BladeCenter T chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.11 Update 3 or later . . . . 42
Using IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Deployment tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deployment infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting up the management connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Hardware considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Firmware considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Operating system considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Device driver considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Application considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Weight considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Floor space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Noise considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
IBM NetBAY and non-IBM racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Moving IBM NetBAY racks safely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
General requirements for racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Rack requirements for Type 8720 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Rack requirements for Type 8730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Power distribution units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Wall and floor power drop requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Keyboard, video, and mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Electrical input for Type 8720
Electrical input for Type 8730
Air temperature and humidity for Telecom/NEBS environment . . . . . . . 62
Air temperature and humidity for non-NEBS environment . . . . . . . . 62
Airflow considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Heat output for Types 8720 and 8730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Prevention of air recirculation
Air filtration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Room cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Power layout example 1- single BladeCenter T units . . . . . . . . . . 67
Power layout example 2 - two BladeCenter T Type 8730 units in NetBAY 25
or 42U racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Power layout example 3 - three BladeCenter T Type 8730 units in NetBAY
25 or 42U racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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