PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF200 Manual

PRIMERGY BladeFrame BF200
Initial Setup Guide cBlade ES
Document Number 430-S00021
May 2006
Release 5.0

Copyright
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
About the BladeFrame BF200 .................................................................................. 1-2
BladeFrame BF200 Hardware.......................................................................... 1-2
BladeFrame BF200 Software........................................................................... 1-2
About this Book ....................................................................................................... 1-3
Purpose............................................................................................................. 1-3
Content ............................................................................................................. 1-5
Site Preparation
Space Requirements ................................................................................................. 2-2
BladeFrame BF200 Dimensions ...................................................................... 2-2
Operating Requirements................................................................................... 2-3
Power Requirements ................................................................................................ 2-5
Environmental Requirements ................................................................................... 2-7
Important Notes ........................................................................................................ 2-8
Notes on Safety ................................................................................................ 2-8
CE Certificate................................................................................................. 2-14
FCC Class A Compliance Statement.............................................................. 2-14
Transporting the Server.................................................................................. 2-15
Notes on Installing Into the Rack................................................................... 2-15
Environmental Protection............................................................................... 2-16

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Installing the Hardware
Unpacking the BladeFrame BF200 .......................................................................... 3-2
Checking the Shipping Containers................................................................... 3-3
Component Weights and Dimensions.............................................................. 3-4
Installing the BladeFrame BF200 Hardware ............................................................ 3-6
Installing the Side Rails.................................................................................... 3-6
Installing the Chassis...................................................................................... 3-15
Air Flow Requirements.................................................................................. 3-17
Installing the Blades ............................................................................................... 3-19
Selecting Blade Slots...................................................................................... 3-19
Removing and Installing Filler Blades........................................................... 3-19
Operating the BladeFrame BF200 BladeLatch.............................................. 3-21
Installing the cBlades ..................................................................................... 3-22
Identifying the pBlades .................................................................................. 3-24
Installing the pBlades..................................................................................... 3-24
Connecting the BladeFrame BF200 to a Power Source
Connecting the BladeFrame BF200 to a Power Source ........................................... 4-2
Indicator Lights ................................................................................................ 4-2
About Powering On.......................................................................................... 4-3
Power On and Boot Sequence.......................................................................... 4-4
Powering on the BladeFrame BF200 ....................................................................... 4-5
BladeFrame BF200 Power Distribution........................................................... 4-5
Power Connections........................................................................................... 4-6
Powering On Your BladeFrame BF200........................................................... 4-8
Providing Redundant Input Power ......................................................................... 4-10
Installing the Static Transfer Switches........................................................... 4-11
Making Network and SAN Connections
Preparing for a Network Connection ....................................................................... 5-3

Contents
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Verifying Gigabit Ethernet Connectors............................................................ 5-3
Verifying 10/100BaseT Ethernet Connectors .................................................. 5-3
Verifying External Addresses and Host Names............................................... 5-4
Preparing for a SAN Connection ............................................................................. 5-5
Plugging Devices into a cBlade ............................................................................... 5-6
Control Blade Ports.......................................................................................... 5-7
Recording Port Numbers.................................................................................. 5-8
Connecting a Management Console to a BladeFrame BF200 ................................. 5-9
Connecting to a cBlade..................................................................................... 5-9
Connecting to a cBlade With a Linux or Windows Laptop........................... 5-10
Checking the Status of Your System.............................................................. 5-14
Connecting Network Cables to the cBlades ........................................................... 5-15
Configuring the cBlades to Join a Network ........................................................... 5-17
Modifying External Management IP Addresses ............................................ 5-17
Modifying Internal Management IP Addresses.............................................. 5-19
Modifying Host Names.................................................................................. 5-21
Connecting the BladeFrame BF200 to a SAN ....................................................... 5-24
Testing Connectivity .............................................................................................. 5-28
Testing Network Connectivity ....................................................................... 5-28
Testing SAN Connectivity ............................................................................. 5-28
Checking the Date, Time, and Time Zone ............................................................. 5-29
Modifying the Date, Time, and Time Zone.................................................... 5-29
Synchronizing With External Time Sources.................................................. 5-30
Index

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Preface
Welcome to the Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY
BladeFrame BF200 system, Release 5.0.
The unique architecture, features, and functionality of the
BladeFrame BF200, including details about installing, configuring,
and administering the system, are contained in the BladeFrame
BF200 technical documentation.
The products and components described in the technical
documentation include BladeLatch™, BladeMate™, BladePlane™,
cBlade™, Control Blade™, PAN Manager™, pBlade™,
Processing Blade™, sBlade™, and Switch Blade™.

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Audience
The BladeFrame BF200 technical documentation assumes that you
have system administration experience with the Linux or UNIX
operating systems, and that you understand server technology.
You should also have a working knowledge of networking
protocols and related technology.

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Documentation Conventions
Convention Description
> Directory-level delimiter used to navigate the left pane of
the PAN Manager GUI.
Example: Resources>Ethernet Connections
Courier
Italic Variable text, such as a path, a filename, or an LPAN name. Example: lpan -c lpanname
Courier font Text that must be typed as shown.
Example: Type root at the login prompt.
Bold font The name of a field or window element appearing in a GUI.
It also highlights default values in PAN Manager man
pages.
Example: In the Users page...
Italic font Text that is emphasized.
Example: Do not connect the power.
[text] Text that is optional to a command.
{text} A set of choices, one of which is required.
|Separation of mutually exclusive choices in syntax lines.
Example: lpan [-aD | -rD]{switch |
SCSI_ID} lpanname
Note Information of importance or that may not fit in main text.
Caution Failure to heed a caution could result in loss of data.
Warning — Failure to heed a warning could result in phys-
ical harm to the user or the hardware.
!

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BladeFrame BF200 Documentation
This book is part of the BladeFrame BF200 product documentation
set, which consists of the following:
•PRIMERGY BladeFrame Technical Overview —Provides a
general description of the technical functionality of the
BladeFrame BF200 system.
•Initial Setup Guide — Provides hardware installation and initial
setup information. This book is shipped only as hard copy with
each BladeFrame BF200.
•PRIMERGY BladeFrame SAN Integration Guide — Provides
recommendations about the best practices to employ when
integrating a Fujitsu Siemens Computers BladeFrame BF200
Processing Area Network (PAN) with a data center's storage
area network (SAN) environment. This book also describeshow
to integrate a fibre channel tape backup system into your PAN.
•PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide —Describes the tasks
necessary to configure and manage a Processing Area Network.
•PAN Manager Command Reference —Describes how the PAN
Manager commands are grouped, and provides the command
man pages in a print format.
•PAN Manager Scripting Guide —Describes how to use the
PAN Manager command-line interface to perform various
configuration tasks.
•PAN Manager Diagnostics Guide — Describes diagnostic
utilities and error messages associated with BladeFrame BF200
hardware and software.
•Configuring Applications for PAN Manager Control: A Quick
Reference Card — A quick reference card that lists the CLI
commands and GUI values for placing an application under
PAN Manager control.

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•Returning used devices — Provides information about returning
used electrical and electronic devices in Europe, the Middle
East, and Africa. (This document is only available from the
online bookshelf.)
•Help Desk — List of Help Desk phone numbers for Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa. (This document is only available from
the online bookshelf.)
The Initial Setup Guide and Configuring Applications for PAN
Manager Control: A Quick Reference Card are shipped as a hard
copy documentation set with each BladeFrame BF200. The other
books are available in HTML and PDF format from the online
bookshelf. You can open the bookshelf using the Documentation
link located along the upper right border of the PAN Manager
graphical user interface (GUI).
In addition to these documents, each BladeFrame BF200 provides
the following:
• Context-sensitive online help for each page of the PAN
Manager GUI.
• Man pages in Linux format for all the commands that we
develop.
• Release Notes, which provide information about last-minute
changes to the hardware, software, or documentation. Release
Notes are published on the support Web site (http://
www.fujitsu-siemens.com/support). Release Notes
are only available from this site; they are not installed on the
cBlade. The online bookshelf provides a link to the support Web
site.

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Fujitsu Siemens Computers Customer Support
We welcome your feedback on any Fujitsu Siemens Computers
document. We would also like to hear your suggestions for
additional topics you want included in our documentation.
If you have enhancement requests or technical questions regarding
the use of any Fujitsu Siemens Computers product, contact us as
follows:
Internet www.fujitsu-siemens.com/
support/
Telephone See www.fujitsu-siemens.com/
support/helpdesk.html for a list
of phone numbers

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Introduction
This chapter introduces you to the basic hardware elements of the
BladeFrame BF200 and provides an overview of the remainder of
the book. For detailed conceptual information about the
BladeFrame BF200 hardware, software, and architectural concepts,
see PRIMERGY BladeFrame Technical Overview in the online
bookshelf.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•About the BladeFrame BF200
•About this Book

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About the BladeFrame BF200
BladeFrame
BF200 Hardware The BladeFrame BF200 contains three major hardware components:
•Processing Blades (pBlades) — pBlades provide the
processing power for applications and services.
•Control Blades (cBlades) — cBlades provide managementand
control functions, plus all external I/O for the BladeFrame
BF200 system. The cBlade ES motherboard has a daughter card
that contains an 8-port Giganet switch.
•BladePlane — The BladePlane is the spine that connects all of
the physical components of the BladeFrame BF200 and
provides the fast transfer rate of the BladeFrame BF200.
BladeFrame
BF200 Software Software shipped with the BladeFrame BF200 includes the operating system running on the cBlade and PAN Manager
software. PAN Manager provides a single control point for
allocating, configuring, and monitoring both physical and logical
resources on a BladeFrame BF200 or on a group of BladeFrame
BF200s that are configured as a single Processing Area Network
(PAN).

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About this Book
Purpose The complete documentation set provides additional information on
installation and administration of the BladeFrame BF200. Table 1.1
lists the tasks involved in the complete installation, configuration,
and administration of the BladeFrame BF200, and the source of
information for those tasks. The online bookshelf contains all these
sources.
Table 1.1 Task Map
Task Documentation Source
Detailed description of
BladeFrame BF200 components PRIMERGY BladeFrame Technical Overview
Site preparation for BladeFrame
BF200 installation Initial Setup Guide
BladeFrame BF200 hardware
installation* Fujitsu Siemens Computers customer support or your authorized support
vendor
Initial Setup Guide
BladeFrame BF200 software
installation* Fujitsu Siemens Computers customer support or your authorized support
vendor
BladeFrame BF200 SAN and
network connections * Fujitsu Siemens Computers customer support or your authorized support
vendor
PRIMERGY BladeFrame SAN
Integration Guide
pBlade installation * Fujitsu Siemens Computers customer
support or your authorized support
vendor
Initial Setup Guide
pServer software installation pServer Integration and Release Notes
Initial BladeFrame BF200
configuration PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide

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Note: Tasks indicated with an asterisk (*) are initially performedby
Fujitsu Siemens Computers customer support or an authorized
service provider. However, you might need or want to perform these
tasks if you change your Storage Area Network (SAN) or network
connections, or you purchase or replace pBlades.
Configuringthe Ethernet interfaces
and switches for external
connectivity
PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Establishing access control PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Creating LPANs PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Creating pServers PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Controlling BladeFrame BF200
components PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Configuring application control PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Monitoring the BladeFrame BF200 PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Modifying BladeFrame BF200
components and configurations PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Disaster Recovery PAN Manager Administrator’s Guide
Table 1.1 Task Map (Continued)
Task Documentation Source

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Content This book contains the following chapters:
•Site Preparation — Describes how to prepare your site prior to
installing a BladeFrame BF200.
•Installing the Hardware — Describes how to unpack and install
the BladeFrame BF200 and its components.
•Connecting the BladeFrame BF200 to a Power Source —
Describes connecting the BladeFrame BF200 to a power source,
powering on the BladeFrame BF200, and providing an optional
redundant input power source.
•Making Network and SAN Connections — Describes how to
connect your BladeFrame BF200 to SAN resources and to an IP
network.
This book discusses the installation and configuration tasks
associated with setting up a BladeFrame BF200 for the first time.
For application control and ongoing administration of the
BladeFrame BF200 and its configurations, see PAN Manager
Administrator’s Guide.

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