Updating The Blade Server Configuration; Input/Output Connectors And Devices - IBM BladeCenter HS23 Installation And User Manual

Types 7875 and 1929

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blade server through the Setup utility, and you might have to install the blade

server operating system. For more information, see "Using the Setup utility" on

page 47.

Updating the blade server configuration

Use this information to update the blade server configuration.

When the blade server starts for the first time after you add or remove an internal

device, you might receive a message that the configuration has changed. The Setup

utility automatically starts so that you can save the new configuration settings. See

"Using the Setup utility" on page 47 for more information about the Setup utility.

Some options have device drivers that you must install. See the documentation

that comes with each device for information about installing device drivers.

The blade server operates as a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server, regardless

of how many microprocessors are installed. For optimum performance, you must

upgrade the operating system to support SMP. See Chapter 5, "Installing the

operating system," on page 61 and your operating-system documentation for

additional information.

Use this information to locate the input/output connectors and devices.

The input/output connectors that are available to the blade server are supplied by

the BladeCenter unit. See the documentation that comes with the BladeCenter unit

for information about the input/output connectors.

The blade server has two selection buttons on the control panel: the media tray

select button and the keyboard/video/mouse select button. See "Blade server

controls and LEDs" on page 11 for information about these buttons and their

functions.

The Ethernet controllers on the blade server communicate with the network

through the Ethernet-compatible I/O modules in the BladeCenter unit. Network

signals to and from the blade server or any expansion cards are automatically

routed to a same-network-interface I/O module through circuitry in the

BladeCenter unit.

BladeCenter HS23 Types 7875 and 1929: Installation and User's Guide

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