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The IBM Documentation CD
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The most recent versions of this and other BladeCenter documentation are at
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
Additionally, most BladeCenter documentation is now available from the IBM Systems Information
Center. To access this information, complete the following steps.
1. Go to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/bladectr/documentation/index.jsp.
2. In the Contents pane, select Combined IBM Systems Information.
3. Select Systems hardware.
4. Select BladeCenter information.
The IBM Documentation CD
The IBM Documentation CD contains documentation for your BladeCenter product in Portable
Document Format (PDF) and includes the IBM Documentation Browser to help you find information
quickly.
Hardware and software requirements
You can run the IBM Documentation CD on any system that meets the hardware and software
requirements.
The IBM Documentation CD requires the following minimum hardware and software:
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Using the Documentation Browser
Use the Documentation Browser to browse the contents of the CD, read brief descriptions of the
documents, and view documents, using Adobe Acrobat Reader or xpdf. The Documentation
Browser automatically detects the regional settings in use in your system and displays the
documents in the language for that region (if available). If a document is not available in the
language for that region, the English-language version is displayed.
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IBM BladeCenter SAN Solutions Guide
This document provides user-oriented information about how the BladeCenter Fibre Channel
optional devices are used to provide different SAN storage solutions for different application
requirements.
IBM BladeCenter Fibre Channel I/O Interoperability Guide
This document provides detailed Fibre Channel I/O-module configuration data and
step-by-step configuration procedures for integrating the BladeCenter unit into other vendor
switch fabrics. Each vendor configuration includes an initial integration checklist, configuration
limitations, supported I/O module and firmware versions, specific management-application
operations, and a successful-integration checklist.The most recent versions of this and other
BladeCenter documentation are at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 2000, or Red Hat Linux®
100 MHz microprocessor v 32 MB of RAM
Adobe® Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or later) or xpdf, which comes with Linux operating systems
Brocade 2-Port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter Installation and User's Guide
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