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Chapter 1. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
IBM BladeCenter
quickly replace and recover blades in your environment.
It does this by assigning Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses to the
BladeCenter slots in such a way that any blades plugged into those slots will take
on the assigned addresses. This enables the Ethernet and Fibre Channel
infrastructure to be configured once and before any blades are connected to the
BladeCenter chassis. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager-Advanced upgrade adds
capabilities to monitor blades for failure events and to take automatic action to
failover from a faulty blade to a cold standby blade. The Ethernet MAC and Fibre
Channel WWN addresses are moved from the faulty blade's slot to the standby
blade's slot and the standby blade is automatically powered on. In a boot from
SAN environment, the operating system and software that was once running on
the faulty blade is now running on the standby blade.
There are two separate offerings of BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager. The main
BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager function is provided in the OFM offering.
Additional capabilities are available with the OFM-Advanced upgrade offering.
OFM
With BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager, you can pre-assign MAC and WWN
addresses, as well as storage boot targets, for up to 100 chassis or 1400 blade
servers. Using the management module Web interface, you can create addresses for
blade servers, save the addresses to a configuration file, deploy the addresses to
the blade slots in the same chassis or in up to 100 different chassis. This can be
done without any blade servers installed in the chassis.
OFM-Advanced upgrade
With BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager-Advanced upgrade, you can monitor the
health of blade servers and automatically - without user intervention - replace a
failed blade from a designated pool of spare blades. After receiving a failure alert,
OFM-Advanced upgrade attempts to power off the failing blade, read the
BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager virtualized addresses and boot target
parameters, apply these parameters to the next blade in the standby blade pool,
and power on the standby blade.
You can also pre-assign MAC and WWN addresses, as well as storage boot targets,
for up to 100 chassis or 1400 blade servers with BladeCenter Open Fabric
Manager-Advanced upgrade. Using an enhanced graphical user interface, you can
create addresses for blade servers, save the addresses profiles; deploy the addresses
to the blade slots in the same chassis or in up to 100 different chassis. This can be
done without any blade servers installed in the chassis. Additionally, you can
create profiles for chassis that have not been installed in the environment by
simply associating an IP address to the future chassis.
BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager-Advanced upgrade is available as a standalone
offering or as an extension to IBM Director. The standalone version includes an
embedded version of IBM Director.
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