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BLADE INSTALLATION AND ADMINSTRATION
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Tip 1
Make sure you have the accoustic baffles as they are very noisy.
Tip 2
Upgrade the firmware on everything asap. I have serveral problems where the install looked to go ok, then I'd restart the bladecentre and the blades no longer booted.
Tip 3
Set-up a NIM server to install AIX on each blade as the AIX install pauses for an hour between cd1 & cd2 as the cdrom is connected via USB.
If you get any specific problems during set-up post them and I'll do my best to help.
Are you using any external storage FastT600 (or whatever they are calling them now?)
Mike
"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
Make sure you have the accoustic baffles as they are very noisy.
Tip 2
Upgrade the firmware on everything asap. I have serveral problems where the install looked to go ok, then I'd restart the bladecentre and the blades no longer booted.
Tip 3
Set-up a NIM server to install AIX on each blade as the AIX install pauses for an hour between cd1 & cd2 as the cdrom is connected via USB.
If you get any specific problems during set-up post them and I'll do my best to help.
Are you using any external storage FastT600 (or whatever they are calling them now?)
Mike
"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
I last worked on a mixture of 1.6GHz PowerPC 970 & 2.2GHz PowerPC 970FX JS20's. As you'd expect there are performance limitations with things like the 3.5" internal drive and usb cd/dvd drive, only 4 DIMM sockets with a max of 4GB
The Keyboard/video/mouse and console select button
are not supported on the JS20 blade so we had to get usb to ps/2 convertors.
Also if you only have one power supply the blade centre internal fan sounds like concorde taking off.
The second IDE connector supporting an IDE HDD cannot be used when a Fibre Expansion card or BladeCenter Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card is installed due to lack of space.
A few flaky options in the GUI as well that caused the whole blade centre to reboot all-in-all I was impressed with them.
Mike
"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
The Keyboard/video/mouse and console select button
are not supported on the JS20 blade so we had to get usb to ps/2 convertors.
Also if you only have one power supply the blade centre internal fan sounds like concorde taking off.
The second IDE connector supporting an IDE HDD cannot be used when a Fibre Expansion card or BladeCenter Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card is installed due to lack of space.
A few flaky options in the GUI as well that caused the whole blade centre to reboot all-in-all I was impressed with them.
Mike
"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."
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