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 "Supported hardware configurations for the connection blades" on
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:
l Configure the management blade or management blades, see section
"Configuring the BX600 management blade" on page 99
l Configure the I/O connection blades, see section "Configuring the I/O
connection blades" on page 101
l Define the connection of the IBP modules with the network, see section
"Connecting IBP modules" on page 104
l Add the blade server to the server list of the ServerView Operations Man-
ager, see section "Adding a server to the ServerView server list" on page
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.
l At least one IBP module must be installed in fabric 1 or in fabric 2 of the
blade server chassis.
l To support a Fibre Channel mezzanine card, you must install a 4 GB Bro-
cade switch blade SW4016-D4 (Fibre Channel switch blade for BX600)
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