Chapter 1. Introduction
The IBM
®
BladeCenter
™
HS20 Type 8832 blade server is based on the IBM
Enterprise X-Architecture
™
technologies
1
.
Your server is a blade-model server that is one of up to 14 blades that can be
installed in the IBM
Eserver
BladeCenter Type 8677. This high-performance blade
server is ideally suited for networking environments that require superior
microprocessor performance, efficient memory management, flexibility, and reliable
data storage.
This
Installation and User’s Guide
provides information to:
v
Set up your blade server
v
Start and configure your blade server
v
Install options
v
Install your operating system
v
Perform basic troubleshooting of your blade server
Your server might have features that are not described in the documentation that
you received with the server. The documentation might be updated occasionally to
include information about those features, or technical updates might be available to
provide additional information that is not included in your server documentation.
These updates are available from the IBM Web site. Complete the following steps
to check for updated documentation and technical updates:
1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/.
2. In the
Learn
section, click
Online publications
.
3. On the “Online publications” page, in the
Brand
field, select
Servers
.
4. In the
Family
field, select
BladeCenter HS20
.
5. Click
Display documents
.
Packaged with the
Installation and User’s Guide
are software CDs that help you to
configure hardware, install device drivers, and install the operating system. To
download the latest device drivers, go to the IBM Support Web site at
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/.
This
Installation and User’s Guide
and other publications that provide detailed
information about your blade server are provided in Portable Document Format
(PDF) on the IBM
BladeCenter Documentation
CD.
Your blade server comes with a three-year limited warranty. If you have access to
the World Wide Web, you can obtain up-to-date information about your BladeCenter
HS20 Type 8832 model and IBM xSeries
™
server products at
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/.
You can register the blade servers at http://www.ibm.com/pc/register/.
1. Enterprise X-Architecture technology takes full advantage of existing IBM technologies to build powerful, scalable, and reliable Intel
processor-based servers. For more information about IBM Enterprise X-Architecture, go to
http://www.ibm.com/pc/us/eserver/xseries/xarchitecture/enterprise/index.html.
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2003
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