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4
Configuration
In the following sections, you find information on the required configurations
on the managed server.
4.1
Configurations on the managed BX600 Blade
Server
In section
page
97, you can find out what combinations of I/O connection blades are
supported by VIOM.
To manage a blade server with VIOM, you must carry out the following pre-
paratory steps:
Configure the management blade or management blades, see section
l
"Configuring the BX600 management blade" on page 99
Configure the I/O connection blades, see section
l
connection blades" on page 101
Define the connection of the IBP modules with the network, see section
l
"Connecting IBP modules" on page 104
Add the blade server to the server list of the ServerView Operations Man-
l
ager, see section
135
4.1.1 Supported hardware configurations for the connection
blades
To define dedicated network connections for server blades with networks,
IBP modules are required.
At least one IBP module must be installed in fabric 1 or in fabric 2 of the
l
blade server chassis.
To support a Fibre Channel mezzanine card, you must install a 4 GB Bro-
l
cade switch blade SW4016-D4 (Fibre Channel switch blade for BX600)
ServerView Virtual-IO Manager
"Supported hardware configurations for the connection blades" on
"Adding a server to the ServerView server list" on page
"Configuring the I/O
97
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