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Document Author: Additional Author(s):	Christopher R Gillen Sam Litenatsky, Kevin Conover		Document ID:	WP100564
Doc. Organization:	Field Technical Sales Support		Document Revised:	05/17/2007
Product(s) covered:	BladeCenter; Brocade; Cisco; IBM eServer BladeCenter; Linux; xSeries

Abstract: The IBM BladeCenter Deployment Guide is intended to present the general steps necessary to successfully deploy IBM blades in the IBM® eServer BladeCenter™. Its primary focus is to detail the steps required for setting up remote boot on IBM Blades. The information provided in this document is based on technical observations. Due to the breadth of content related to this topic, this guide has now been split into 4 parts. Part 1m: Management Module – information specific to the initial setup and ongoing usage of the Management Module. Part 1a: Advanced Management Module – information specific to the initial setup and ongoing usage of the Advanced Management Module. Part 2: Embedded Switches – information related to the configuration of the embedded Ethernet and Fibre channel switches. Part 3: Blades – blade configuration and installation information with a primary focus of installing Linux in a boot to SAN environment. Remote boot, root boot, or boot from SAN, is the name referred to the server configuration where the server operating system is installed on a logical drive (LUN) that does not reside inside the server chassis. This document will describe in detail the process that one must go through to setup a remote boot for HS20 or HS40 blade servers. The blade servers utilize the IBM BladeCenter Fibre Channel Expansion Card connected to the BladeCenter Fibre Channel Switch Modules via the BladeCenter backplane. The switch modules in turn are connected to the core fibre channel switches that host the SAN Fabric.

Classification:	Hardware	Category:	Installation and Migration
Platform(s):	IBM BladeCenter; IBM System x Family
O/S:	Linux; Windows 2000; Windows 2003	Keywords:	BladeCenter, HS20, HS40, SAN, Linux, Windows, HBA, Red Hat, RedHat, pivot root, QLogic, Management Module, Advanced Management Module, BladeCenter H, BC-H, HS21, LS21, LS20